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blest 音标拼音: [bl'ɛst] a. 神圣的,幸福的,成功的 神圣的,幸福的,成功的 blest adj 1: highly favored or fortunate ( as e. g. by divine grace); " our blessed land"; " the blessed assurance of a steady income" [ synonym: { blessed}, { blest}] [ ant: { cursed}, { curst}] 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 [ 1913 Webster] And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. -- Gen. ii. 3. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to. [ 1913 Webster] The quality of mercy is . . . twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] It hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee. -- 1 Chron. xvii. 27 ( R. V. ) [ 1913 Webster] 3. To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons. [ 1913 Webster] Bless them which persecute you. -- Rom. xii. 14. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food. [ 1913 Webster] Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them. -- Luke ix. 16. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross ( one' s self). [ Archaic] -- Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster] 6. To guard; to keep; to protect. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] 7. To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences. [ 1913 Webster] Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. -- Ps. ciii. 1. [ 1913 Webster] 8. To esteem or account happy; to felicitate. [ 1913 Webster] The nations shall bless themselves in him. -- Jer. iv. 3. [ 1913 Webster] 9. To wave; to brandish. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] And burning blades about their heads do bless. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] Round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest. -- Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster] 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." -- Ascham. [ 1913 Webster] { Bless me!} { Bless us!} an exclamation of surprise. -- Milton. { To bless from}, to secure, defend, or preserve from. " Bless me from marrying a usurer." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] To bless the doors from nightly harm. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] { To bless with}, { To be blessed with}, to favor or endow with; to be favored or endowed with; as, God blesses us with health; we are blessed with happiness. [ 1913 Webster]
Blest \ Blest\, a. Blessed. " This patriarch blest." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] White these blest sounds my ravished ear assail. -- Trumbull. [ 1913 Webster]
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