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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Bless (0.00920 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Bless.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: bless
kebahagiaan, memberkati
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: bless
bless
v 1: give a benediction to;
“The dying man blessed his son” [ant:
curse]
2: confer prosperity or happiness on
3: make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on
God for protection; consecrate [syn:
sign]
4: render holy by means of religious rites [syn:
consecrate,
hallow,
sanctify] [ant:
desecrate]
[also:
blest]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Bless
Bless
\Bless\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Blessedor
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
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And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.
--Gen. ii. 3.
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2. To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity
or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to.
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The quality of mercy is . . . twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
--Shak.
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It hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy
servant, that it may continue forever before thee.
--1 Chron.
xvii. 27 (R.
V. )
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3. To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to
invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.
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Bless them which persecute you. --Rom. xii.
14.
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4. To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities
upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food.
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Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and
looking up to heaven, he blessed them. --Luke ix.
16.
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5. To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self).
[Archaic] --Holinshed.
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6. To guard; to keep; to protect. [Obs.]
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7. To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences.
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Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within
me, bless his holy name. --Ps. ciii. 1.
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8. To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.
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The nations shall bless themselves in him. --Jer.
iv. 3.
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9. To wave; to brandish. [Obs.]
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And burning blades about their heads do bless.
--Spenser.
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Round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest.
--Fairfax.
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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.
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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.
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To bless the doors from nightly harm. --Milton.
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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.
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