bestow good, give favor; sanctify, make holy
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Bless Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
To wave; to brandish.
To wave; to brandish.
(v. t.)
To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences.
To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences.
(v. t.)
To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self).
To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self).
(v. t.)
To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate
To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate
(v. t.)
To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to.
To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to.
(v. t.)
To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food.
To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food.
(v. t.)
To guard; to keep; to protect.
To guard; to keep; to protect.
(v. t.)
To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.
To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.
(v. t.)
To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutTo esteem or account happy; to felicitate.
bless
\bless\ (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. blessed (&?;) or blest; p. pr. & vb. n. blessing.] [oe. blessien, bletsen, as. bletsian, bledsian, bloedsian, fr. bl&?;d blood; prob. originally to consecrate by sprinkling with blood. see blood.]
1. to make or pronounce holy; to consecrate and god blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. ii. 3.
2. to make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to. the quality of mercy is twice blest; it blesseth him that gives and him that takes. it hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee. xvii. 27 (r. v. )
3. to express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons. bless them which persecute you. xii. 14.
4. to invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food. then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them. 16.
5. to make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self). [archaic] olinshed.
6. to guard; to keep; to protect. [obs.]
7. to praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences. bless the lord, o my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. ciii. 1.
8. to esteem or account happy; to felicitate. the nations shall bless themselves in him. iv. 3.
9. to wave; to brandish. [obs.] and burning blades about their heads do bless. round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest.
note: this is an old sense of the word, supposed by johnson, nares, and others, to have been derived from the old rite of blessing a field by directing the hands to all parts of it. "in drawing [their bow] some fetch such a compass as though they would turn about and bless all the field."
bless
me!
bless
us! an exclamation of surprise.
similar words(4)
to bless with
to bless from
bless me
bless us
Dyorladu = v. to bless
Dywyn = v. to make fair or white; to bless
Verb
1. give a benediction to; "The dying man blessed his son"
(antonym) curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict
(hypernym) raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
(hyponym) anoint, inunct, oil, anele, embrocate
(derivation) benediction, blessing
2. confer prosperity or happiness on
(hypernym) confer, bestow
3. make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate
(synonym) sign
(hypernym) gesticulate, gesture, motion
4. render holy by means of religious rites
(synonym) consecrate, hallow, sanctify
(hypernym) declare
(hyponym) reconsecrate
Bless Definition from Social Science Dictionaries & Glossaries
We bless and curse ourselves. Some dreams are divine, as well as some waking thoughts. Donne sings of one "Who dreamt devoutlier than most use to pray." Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. We are scarcely less afflicted when we remember some unworthiness in our conduct in a dream, than if it had been actual, and the intensity of our grief, which is our atonement, measures inversely the degree by which this is separated from an actual unworthiness. For in dreams we but act a part which must have been learned and rehearsed in our waking hours, and no doubt could discover some waking consent thereto. If this meanness has not its foundation in us, why are we grieved at it? In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake. But an unwavering and commanding virtue would compel even its most fantastic and faintest dreams to respect its ever wakeful authority; as we are accustomed to say carelessly, we should never have dreamed of such a thing. Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Bless Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
n. A spell on the Cleric spell circle. Details are as follows.
Spell #: 304
Spell code: holy blade
Effect: This spell blesses a weapon, making it effective against the undead. The spell will not work on magical weapons until the caster achieves 50 ranks in the cleric base spell circle, and weapons which have been enchanted by wizards, or are weighted, or have flares, can never be blessed. Once a cleric learns 25 spell ranks in the cleric base circle, their blessings will also impart holy water flares unto the weapon.
Duration: 3 swings/level
Cumulative Duration? No.
Self-Cast Only? No.
Spell #: 304
Spell code: holy blade
Effect: This spell blesses a weapon, making it effective against the undead. The spell will not work on magical weapons until the caster achieves 50 ranks in the cleric base spell circle, and weapons which have been enchanted by wizards, or are weighted, or have flares, can never be blessed. Once a cleric learns 25 spell ranks in the cleric base circle, their blessings will also impart holy water flares unto the weapon.
Duration: 3 swings/level
Cumulative Duration? No.
Self-Cast Only? No.
Bless Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Bless may refer to:
- Blessing, a religious pronouncement
- Bless (rapper) (born 1983), hip-hop artist from Montreal
- "Bless" (song), a 2010 single by L'Arc-en-Ciel
- Bless, another name for the Swedish group Bubbles
- Bless (album), an album by Bubbles
- Bless (software), a cross platform hex editor
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Bubbles is a Swedish girl group, also known as Bless. The group's original lineup consisted of lead singer Mari Caroline Ljungström (born 26 June 1987), twin sisters Patricia and Sandra Joxelius (born 7 April 1987), Jenny (Yenny) Andersén (born 10 October 1988), and Hannah Steffenburg (born 14 April 1988).
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Bless Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries
Bless Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries
(1.) God blesses his people when he bestows on them some gift temporal or spiritual (Gen. 1:22; 24:35; Job 42:12; Ps. 45:2; 104:24, 35). (2.) We bless God when we thank him for his mercies (Ps. 103:1, 2; 145:1, 2). (3.) A man blesses himself when he invokes God's blessing (Isa. 65:16), or rejoices in God's goodness to him (Deut. 29:19; Ps. 49:18). (4.) One blesses another when he expresses good wishes or offers prayer to God for his welfare (Gen. 24:60; 31:55; 1 Sam. 2:20). Sometimes blessings were uttered under divine inspiration, as in the case of Noah, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses (Gen. 9:26, 27; 27:28, 29, 40; 48:15-20; 49:1-28; Deut. 33). The priests were divinely authorized to bless the people (Deut. 10:8; Num. 6:22-27). We have many examples of apostolic benediction (2 Cor. 13:14; Eph. 6:23, 24; 2 Thess. 3:16, 18; Heb. 13:20, 21; 1 Pet. 5:10, 11). (5.) Among the Jews in their thank-offerings the master of the feast took a cup of wine in his hand, and after having blessed God for it and for other mercies then enjoyed, handed it to his guests, who all partook of it. Ps. 116:13 refers to this custom. It is also alluded to in 1 Cor. 10:16, where the apostle speaks of the "cup of blessing."
