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形容詞

blessedfull (comparative more blessedfull, superlative most blessedfull)

1. (obsolete) Full of blessing.
   • 1549 August 16, The Seconde Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testament Conteynyng the Epistles of S. Paul, and Other the Apostles: Wherunto Is Added a Paraphrase vpon the Reuelacion of S. John, London: […] Edwarde Whitchurche, pages viii–ix:

     For in his .xxxi. Psalme describeth he also this blessedfull state of man, declared now by the gospel, shewyng y it is not geuē & receiued, as due vnto vs for the workes of Moses law, but by the fre goodnes of God, wherby we are moued & drawen to beleue.

   • 1550 October 11, Ihon Veron Senonoys, The Godly Saiyngs of the Old Auncient Faithful Fathers vp on the Sacrament of the Bodye and Bloude of Chryste. Newlye Compyled and Translated oute of Latin intoo English., [Worceter: […] Ihon Oswen]:

     Then without doubt ſhal we receiue at the lords table that bleſſedful and euerlaſtynge lyfe, which is purchaſed vnto vs, with yͤ precious bloud of our ſauior Ieſu Chriſt.

   • 1562 March 10, Iohn Veron, A Stronge Battery Against the Idolatrous Inuocation of the Dead Saintes, and Against the Hauyng or Setting up of Images in the House of Prayer, or in Any Other Place Where There Is Any Paril of Idolatrye, Made Dialoguewise, [London: […] Henry Sutton for Thomas Hacket]:

     His wordes are these: If the soules of the dead were present in the matters or businesses of the liuing, or shuld talke with vs, when we se them in our slepe (that if I should holde my peace of the other) my godly mother wold neuer a night forsake me, which folowed me both by sen & by land, that she myght lyue in my companie. For, God forfend, that she should in the blessedfull lyfe be made more cruell: in so muche that when any thyng troubleth my heart, she wold comfort me hir son beyng in heauinesse, whome she loued entierly, whom she would neuer see to be striken in sadnesse. […] What miracles soeuer (sayeth this holy father) bee so diuinely wrought & done, eyther by angels or by som other mean that they do cōmend the religion & worshipping of the only god, in whom only the blessedful lyfe is: we must beleue that they are truly done of them or by them whiche do loue vs according to the truth & godlinesse, God him selfe working in them.

   • 1571, Iohn Northbrooke, Spiritus Est Vicarius Christi in Terra. A Breefe and Pithie Summe of the Christian Faith Made in Fourme of a Confession, VVith a Confutation of the Papistes Obiections and Argumentes in Sundry Pointes of Religion, Repugnaunt to the Christian Faith, London: […] Iohn Kingston for W. Williamson, page 100:

     To bee shorte, this transitorie life, shall in a moment, and in the twincklyng of an eye, bee chaunged into a moste blessedfull life, whiche neuer shall haue ende.

   • 1581, Iohn Marbeck, A Booke of Notes and Common Places, with Their Expositions, Collected and Gathered out of the Workes of Diuers Singular Writers, and Brought Alphabetically into Order. A Worke Both Profitable and Also Necessarie, to Those That Desire the True Vnderstanding & Meaning of Holy Scripture, London: […] Thomas East, page 591:

     The Kingdome of God is taken two manner of wayes. First it is taken for that blessedfull lyfe, and for that euerlasting felicitie, which we shall enioye after this mortall lyfe.

   • 1582, Batman vppon Bartholome His Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum, Newly Corrected, Enlarged and Amended: with Such Additions as Are Requisite, vnto Euery Seuerall Booke: Taken Foorth of the Most Approued Authors, the Like Heretofore Not Translated in English. Profitable for All Estates, as Well for the Benefite of the Mind as the Bodie., London: […] Thomas East, page 139:

     And two bodyes that be blessedfull […]

   • a. 1618, Walter Raleigh, “Sir Walter Releigh’s Pilgrimage”, in Sir Walter Raleigh’s Sceptick, or Speculations and Observations of the Magnificency and Opulency of Cities, His Seat of Government, and Letters to the Kings Majestie, and Others of Qualitie: Also, His Demeanor Before His Execution, London: […] W. Bentley, published 1651, page 136:

     Then by that happy blestfull day, / More peacefull Pilgrimes I shall see, / That have cast off their rags of clay, / And walk apparelled fresh like me.