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blissful, a.|ˈblɪsfʊl|
Forms: 2–4 blisful(le, 4 -uolle, blysfol, 4–6 -ful, blesful(l, blesseful(l, 6 blisseful(l, blisfull, 7 blissfull, blessful, 3– blissful.
[f. bliss n. + -ful.]
1. Of persons: Full of bliss, joyful; happy or joyous in the highest degree.
a1240Sawles Warde in Lamb. Hom. 259 Hu he sit blisful on his fader riht half. c1386Chaucer Frankl. T. 362 O blisful artow now thou Dorigen, That hast thy lusty housbonde in thyne Armes. 1388Wyclif Eccles. iv. 3 Y demyde hym, that was not borun ȝit.. to be blisfulere than euer eithir. 1646Crashaw Steps Temp. 65 Let the blessful heart hold fast Her heavenly armful. 1863Tennyson Welcome to Alexandra 27 Blissful bride of a blissful heir.
2. Of things: Full of or fraught with bliss.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 77 Þe engel hire brohte þe blisfulle tidinge. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 682 From that blisful our. 1589Greene Menaph. (1616) 47 To turne my blissefull sweet to balefull sowre. 1667Milton P.L. i. 5 Till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. 205 To live with Ormusd in a blissful eternity. 1881Morley Cobden I. 14 All blessed by nature with a kind of blissful mercurial simplicity.
†3. Blessed, beatified; sacred, holy. Obs.
a1225St. Marher. 21 Beo þu a iblescet and ti blisfule sune iesu crist. a1300Cursor M. 8906 Þe lauerd of hele, þat blisful king. 1340Ayenb. 186 Þe blisuolle blode of Iesu Crist. 1496Dives & Paup. i. (W. de W.) liii. 93/2 Marye Magdaleyn anoynted the blysful fete of our lorde Ihesu. 1534Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) M iij b, It is ordeyned by the holy senate, by consente of blisfull men.
†4. Glorified, transfigured; cf. bliss n. 3. Obs.
1387[see bliss n. 3]. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xl, A bodi þat is blisful [L. glorificatus]. Ibid. xiv. xliv, In toppe of þis mounte oure Lorde schewid him selfe blysful.
†5. Having power to bless. Obs.
1598Florio Dict. Ep. Ded. 4 Laie then your blisse-full handes on his head (right Honorable). |