Crossword clues for beatitude
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beatitude \Be*at"i*tude\, n. [L. beatitudo: cf. F. b['e]atitude. See Beatify.]
Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.
Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (
--Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues.-
(R. C. Ch.) Beatification.
--Milman.Syn: Blessedness; felicity; happiness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "supreme happiness," from Middle French béatitude (15c.) and directly from Latin beatitudinem (nominative beatitudo) "state of blessedness," from past participle stem of beare "make happy" (see bene-). As "a declaration of blessedness" (usually plural, beatitudes, especially in reference to the Sermon on the Mount) it is attested from 1520s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) Supreme, utmost bliss and happiness. 2 Any one of the Biblical blessings given by Jesus in Matthew 5:3–12. E.g.: "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth"(Matthew 5:5).
WordNet
n. a state of supreme happiness [syn: blessedness, beatification]
one of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount; in Latin each saying begins with `beatus' (blessed); "her favorite Beatitude is `Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth'"
Wikipedia
Beatitude is the debut album released by Ric Ocasek, lead singer and principal songwriter of The Cars. It was released by Geffen Records in 1982. It features Greg Hawkes of The Cars on keyboards, as well as Jules Shear and Stephen Hague from Jules and the Polar Bears.
Usage examples of "beatitude".
They rejoiced in the uncovenanted beatitude of sweetness alighting in their hearts.
If you accept these beatitudes as the gift of your Divine Master, you will find that obedience to the precepts which follow, is not the unwilling service of a bondsman, but the free and natural action of an unfranchised spirit.
Only in Ironside could he find the freedom to sink back into changeless beatitude, into nothing and everything.
Hence He was at once comprehensor, inasmuch as He had the beatitude proper to the soul, and at the same time wayfarer, inasmuch as He was tending to beatitude, as regards what was wanting to His beatitude.
Christ by His bodily sufferings tended to beatitude as regards the glory of His body.
But to be always in the state of beatitude befits neither man nor angel: for if they had been created in beatitude, they would not have sinned afterwards.
ISHAK The platitudes of dervishes do not much disturb the beatitudes of kings.
Beatitudes of Matthew 5 with a black finger on the white page escorted by the pirated strains of a gospel hymn yet to be written and, nearer to hand from the sofa gasps of recognition and wheezes of impatience rising on the wings of the gamebird smashed by the burst of a shotgun to scurry frantically through the brown grasses fleeing for the crevice of a stone wall from what was happening, the clatter of hooves, the crash of underbrush, Hunting Musique!
The Beatitude is constantly catching up with the retreating enemy galaxy.
He went on to inform his antagonist that even now tractor beams were hauling stuff into one of the insulated holds, raw hot stuff at a few thousand degrees, mesons, protons, corpuscles, wave particlesa great trail of material smaller than dust, all of which the Beatitude would use for fuel or building material.
Within a hundred heartbeats, the entire speeding Beatitude worldlet was filled completely with the consuming dust.
For the captain of a great weapon-vessel such as the Beatitude you are emotionally unstable.
The Beatitude had attained a velocity at which it broke free from spatial dimensions.
The Beatitude had to contend with racing tachyons and other particles of frantic mobility.
It was for this reason that, long ago, the Beatitude had been launched to chastise the enemy galaxy and, if possible, decipher the meaning of hiseobiw or miqoesiy.