Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Blessed \Bless"ed\ (bl[e^]s"[e^]d), a.
   1. Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration;
      heavenly; holy.

            O, run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it
            lowly at his blessed feet.            --Milton.

   2. Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings;
      happy; highly favored.

            All generations shall call me blessed. --Luke i. 48.

            Towards England's blessed shore.      --Shak.

   3. Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness;
      blissful; joyful. ``Then was a blessed time.'' ``So
      blessed a disposition.'' --Shak.

   4. Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or
      heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven.

            Reverenced like a blessed saint.      --Shak.

            Cast out from God and blessed vision. --Milton.

   5. (R. C. Ch.) Beatified.

   6. Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.

            Not a blessed man came to set her [a boat] free.
                                                  --R. D.
                                                  Blackmore.

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

            And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.
                                                  --Gen. ii. 3.

   2. To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity
      or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to.

            The quality of mercy is . . . twice blest; It
            blesseth him that gives and him that takes. --Shak.

            It hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy
            servant, that it may continue forever before thee.
                                                  --1 Chron.
                                                  xvii. 27 (R.
                                                  V. )

   3. To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to
      invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.

            Bless them which persecute you.       --Rom. xii.
                                                  14.

   4. To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities
      upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food.

            Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and
            looking up to heaven, he blessed them. --Luke ix.
                                                  16.

   5. To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self).
      [Archaic] --Holinshed.

   6. To guard; to keep; to protect. [Obs.]

   7. To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences.

            Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within
            me, bless his holy name.              --Ps. ciii. 1.

   8. To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.

            The nations shall bless themselves in him. --Jer.
                                                  iv. 3.

   9. To wave; to brandish. [Obs.]

            And burning blades about their heads do bless.
                                                  --Spenser.

            Round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest.
                                                  --Fairfax.

   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.

Source : WordNet®

blessed
     adj 1: highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our
            blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady
            income" [syn: {blest}] [ant: {cursed}]
     2: worthy of worship; "the Blessed Trinity"
     3: 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}]
     4: Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus
        worthy of veneration [syn: {beatified}]
     5: enjoying the bliss of heaven
     6: characterized by happiness and good fortune; "a blessed
        time"
     7: 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)}]