Crossword clues for blessed
blessed
- Favoured plot has comparatively little content
- Lucky to be not so much asleep?
- In God's favour or damned?
- Tucked up in bed, not so favoured
- Like the meek and the poor in spirit
- Favored by God
- Touched by an angel
- More than fortunate
- Like the meek, according to the Bible
- Like some events
- Leading a charmed life
- Highly favored
- __ event (birth of a child)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hallowed \hallowed\ adj. belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power; made holy. Opposite of unholy. [Narrower terms: beatified, blessed ; {blessed ; {consecrated, sacred, sanctified ] Also See: {consecrated, consecrate, sacred.
Syn: holy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 12c., "supremely happy," also "consecrated" (c.1200), past participle adjective from bless (v.). Reversed or ironic sense of "cursed, damned" is recorded from 1806. Related: Blessedly; blessedness.
Wiktionary
1 Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing. 2 In Catholicism, a title indicating the beatification of a person, thus allowing public veneration of those who have lived in sanctity or died as martyrs. 3 Held in veneration; revere. 4 Worthy of worship; holy. 5 (context informal English) An intensifier; damned. alt. 1 Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing. 2 In Catholicism, a title indicating the beatification of a person, thus allowing public veneration of those who have lived in sanctity or died as martyrs. 3 Held in veneration; revere. 4 Worthy of worship; holy. 5 (context informal English) An intensifier; damned. v
(en-past of: bless)
a. (context poetic dated English) (alternative form of blessed English) (qualifier: verb) alt. (context poetic dated English) (alternative form of blessed English) (qualifier: verb)
WordNet
adj. highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income" [syn: blest] [ant: cursed]
worthy of worship; "the Blessed Trinity"
expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, everlasting, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal]
Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration [syn: beatified]
enjoying the bliss of heaven
characterized by happiness and good fortune; "a blessed time"
having good fortune bestowed or conferred upon; sometimes used as in combination; "blessed with a strong healthy body"; "a nation blessed with peace"; "a peace-blessed era" [syn: blessed with(p), endued with(p)]
Wikipedia
Blessed is the fifth studio album by Jamaican musician Beenie Man, released in 1995. It is his first album to receive an international release. Blessed gained Beenie Man a large following outside of Jamaica for the first time, setting the stage for his multiple collaborations with some of the biggest American hip hop and R&B stars of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Blessed is the eleventh album in the live praise and worship series of contemporary worship music by Hillsong Church. It was recorded live at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on 3 March 2002 by Darlene Zschech and the Hillsong Worship Team. Blessed saw Marty Sampson step up to lead worship alongside Darlene Zschech and Reuben Morgan for the night. Over 10,000 people from Hillsong Church attended the recording. The album reached No. 4 on the ARIA Albums Chart.
Blessed may refer to:
- The state of having received a blessing
- beatified, a title assigned by the Roman Catholic Church
Blessed is a BBC television sitcom written by Ben Elton and starring Ardal O'Hanlon as Gary, a record producer, who is struggling to bring up two small children. The series was broadcast on BBC One on Friday evenings at 9.00pm between October and December 2005. It featured the lullaby Morningtown Ride as its theme, sung by the cast band. One series of 8 episodes was produced.
Blessed is a 2004 British/Romanian horror film directed by Simon Fellows starring Heather Graham and James Purefoy.
"Blessed" is a song written by Brett James, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey, and recorded by American country music artist Martina McBride. It was released in October 2001 as the second single from her Greatest Hits album. In March 2002, it became her fifth and last No. 1 single on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
Blessed is a 2009 drama film. It was released in Australia on 10 September 2009. It stars Miranda Otto and Frances O'Connor. It is a film adaptation of the play Who's Afraid of the Working Class?.
It is directed by Ana Kokkinos and written by Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves and Christos Tsiolkas. The film is 113 minutes in length and was filmed in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Blessed is a British drama film released on 24 October 2008 that was written and directed by Mark Aldridge. Its cast included well-known actors James Nesbitt, Natascha McElhone and Gary Lewis, as well as young Lillian Woods. It is 83 minutes long and was filmed mainly on the Scottish island of Eilean Iarmain.
"Blessed" is an English language hit single by Lebanese-German singer Fady Maalouf. Maalouf was a contestant in 2008 of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German version of Pop Idol. He sang the song for the first time on 17 May 2008 in the finals of the said competition as the "winner's song" in case he won the competition. He eventually came second (runner up) to winner Thomas Godoj. "Blessed" also appears in Fady Maalouf's debut album also entitled Blessed.
Even though Fady Maalouf did not win the title, his extraordinary voice and his charming personality had, by then, won him the hearts of an enormous fan base, which then, in an unprecedented effort, bombarded Sony BMG with letters, mails and phone calls, all demanding the same - the release of Fady Maalouf’s title "Blessed", performed by him during the final show.
After a contract with Columbia, a subsidiary of Sony BMG Music Entertainment "Blessed" was released on 4 July 2008 as a single and went straight to no. 2 in the German single charts.
"Blessed" was written for Fady Maalouf by Jörgen Elofsson and Peer Åström, a songwriter team of international standing, who have worked with such names as Kelly Clarkson, Leona Lewis, Madonna, Britney Spears, Cyndi Lauper, Il Divo, and especially Céline Dion. The song is produced by Alex Christensen, who has worked with artists such as Justin Timberlake, Tom Jones, Paul Anka or Michael Bolton.
The album, also named Blessed including 14 tracks, saw the light on 25 July 2008, and went as well straight to no. 2 in the German album charts. These simultaneous single and album charts positions made Maalouf the most successful DSDS finalist of all time.
Blessed is the debut album by Lebanese-German singer Fady Maalouf. Maalouf was a contestant in 2008 of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German version of Pop Idol.
Even though Fady Maalouf did not win the title, his extraordinary voice and his charming personality had, by then, won him the hearts of an enormous fan base, which then, in an unprecedented effort, bombarded Sony BMG with letters, mails and phone calls, all demanding the same - the release of Fady Maalouf’s title "Blessed", performed by him during the final show.
After a contract with Columbia, a subsidiary of Sony BMG Music Entertainment the single " Blessed" was released on 4 July 2008 as a single and went straight to no. 2 in the German single charts. The same titled album, Blessed including 14 tracks, saw the light on 25 July 2008, and went as well straight to no. 2 in the German album charts.
These simultaneous single and album charts positions made Maalouf the most successful DSDS finalist of all time.
Blessed is the tenth studio album by Lucinda Williams, her eleventh album overall. It was released in 2011 on Lost Highway Records and includes guest appearances by Elvis Costello and Matthew Sweet.
"Buttercup" was released to radio and digital outlets as the first single.
The album debuted at number 15 on the Billboard 200.
Blessed is an album by American composer, saxophonist and clarinet player Joe Maneri with his son, violinist Mat Maneri recorded in 1997 and released on the ECM label.
"Blessed" is the fourth single by R&B singer Jill Scott from her #1 album The Light of the Sun. (2011) It was sent to radio in February 2012.
"Blessed" is a song by Swedish house producer Avicii (credited under the name Tom Hangs) featuring vocals from Shermanology. Like many of Avicii's early tracks this had been leaked on the internet between late 2010 to April 2011. The track was officially released on May 23, 2011 through Spinnin' Records. It was further released on March 6, 2012 in the United States, and then 3 months later in the United Kingdom on June 21, 2012.
The song was included on Dutch DJ Tiësto's Club Life: Volume One Las Vegas compilation. It was also featured on the Stolichnaya vodka TV advert aired during the UEFA Euro 2012 football tournament.
Blessed is the third studio album by Nigerian singer Flavour N'abania, released by 2nite Entertainment on October 18, 2012. It features guest appearances from Wizboyy and Fally Ipupa. The album's production was handled by Masterkraft, Wizzboy, Selebobo, MJay, Del B, J Stunt, and Dekumzy. Masterkraft, the most prominent producer from the bunch, produced the album's lead single " Kwarikwa (Remix)" which received numerous radio airplay on The Beat 99.9 FM and Cool FM.
In addition to the lead single, the album was supported by four other singles: " Baby Oku", " Shake", " Chinny Baby" and "Ada Ada". To celebrate the release of Blessed, Flavour launched 2nite Club in his hometown of Enugu State. He invited Tiwa Savage, Iyanya, Kcee and Bracket to partake in 2nite's grand opening.
Usage examples of "blessed".
My poor mind has been distressed at her weak state: I should sink under discouragement, did I not consider that He who sends affliction can support in it, and he who brings low can raise up in his own time, if it be his blessed will, to which all must be submitted.
Now began I afresh to give myself up to a serious examination after my state and condition for the future, and of my evidences for that blessed world to come: for it hath, I bless the name of God, been my usual course, as always, so especially in the day of affliction, to endeavour to keep my interest in the life to come, clear before mine eyes.
Domremy should know of the baptism of King Clovis of France, and of the descent of the Holy Ghost, at the singing of Veni Creator Spiritus, bearing in its beak the holy ampulla, full of chrism blessed by Our Lord?
And although Blessed Albert the Great agrees with the other Doctors, yet he says more expressly that in such matters there is always apostasy either in word or in deed.
Blessed Albert, it is apostasy of deed, because that action is looked for from the devil.
The conception is attributed to the Blessed Virgin, not as the active principle thereof, but because she supplied the matter, and because the conception took place in her womb.
Preserved in balladry, too, though not illustrating the same point, is the hideous tale of Lady Mary de la Poer, who shortly after her marriage to the Earl of Shrewsfield was killed by him and his mother, both of the slayers being absolved and blessed by the priest to whom they confessed what they dared not repeat to the world.
Balon the Brave, Balon the Blessed, Balon Twice-Crowned, who won us back our freedoms and our god.
As the blessed Father hath inspired me with the knowledge of him, and I am blessed with the consciousness of his immortal love, so he that believes and assimilates these truths as I proclaim them, he shall experience the same blessedness through my instruction.
Beside, they had been blessed with an especially bounteous harvest this year, and she wished to share her blessing.
What with all the hammering, sharpening, burnishing and polishing, we might have been such a city of smiths as Bran the Blessed encountered in one of his fabled journeys.
The Prelate Anjou made a fire to his god and burned upon it the leaves of holyoak so that all his soldiers might breathe the blessed smoke.
I decided that no one but a poet could have contented himself with a lyric in one word, unless it might have been a humourist, to whom sometimes a single small word is more blessed than all the verbal riches of Webster himself.
Schizophrenia, you know, was once thought to mean possession by devils, and hydrocephalic idiots were considered peculiarly blessed.
Blessed silence reigned in the storeroom as it grew marginally lighter.