What is blessed?

More definitions of "blessed":

• (adj): Characterized by happiness and good fortune.
  Example: "A blessed time"

• (adj): Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration.
  Synonyms: beatified

• (adj): Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
  Example: "Not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"
  Synonyms: blasted, blame, blamed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, everlasting, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal

• (adj): Having good fortune bestowed or conferred upon; sometimes used as in combination.
  Example: "Blessed with a strong healthy body"; "a nation blessed with peace"; "a peace-blessed era"
  Synonyms: blessed with, endued with

• (adj): Worthy of worship.
  Example: "The Blessed Trinity"

• (adj): Highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace).
  Example: "Our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income"
  Synonyms: blest

Famous quotes containing the word blessed:

“When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished from their sight.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 24:30,31.

The Emmaus story.

“Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme—
why are they no help to me now
I want to make
something imagined, not recalled?”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“Had I but died an hour before this chance,
I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant
There’s nothing serious in mortality.
All is but toys; renown and grace is dead,
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)