Middle English Dictionary Entry
blessed-ful adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | blessed-ful adj. Also blest-, blissed-, blist-. |
| Etymology | From ppl. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Sacred, holy; blessed, blissful; (b) joyous, cheerful (song, tidings); (c) benevolent (endeavor).
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)11234 : Þat bl[i]ssidful [Vsp: blisful] birth in betheleem.
- c1400 Prep.Euch.(Ashm 1286)125/29 : Whenne he haþ resceyued þat myȝtteful and blessydful sacramente.
- c1400 St.Anne(1) (Min-U Z.822.N.81)285 : Anna, þat blystful thyng, Scho bare..mary.
- (1435) Misyn FL (Corp-O 236)61/26 : Þai ar broght & sett in setys of blistfull [L beatam] rest.
- c1450 Caistre Hymn (Lamb 853)p.238 : Jhesu, for þy blessidful [vrr. blessed, blysfulle, precius] blood.
- a1475 Of alle þe bryddus (Brog 2.1)45 : Þat bleyssydfull kynge.
- a1500 Heil be þou marie þe (Adv 19.3.1)p.146 : Heyle, blestefull starne of tho see..Hele, blestfull virgyn of all virgyns!
- a1500 Tundale (Adv 19.3.1)2205 : Among that blessydfull [vr. blisfulle] company, He saw ther fowre byschopis.
- ?a1500 Hist.World (Trin-O 29)112/454 : Paradise .. was so bryght and blessydful to see, and as rede as flamyd fyre.
b
- a1475 Lovely lordynges (Brog 2.1)p.2 : A blestfulle songe that byrd gone synge.
- a1500 As I went þrow (Adv 19.3.1)18 : A blestfull ȝit [vr. semely song] hard I..'Gloria in excelsis deo'.
- 1607(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hrl 2124)344/363 : A! hye we fast..a Blessedfull word we may him bringe.
c
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.16 : Your discrete sapience All vyce euermore destroye maye..By vertuous and blessedfull dilygence.