a. Obs. Also blestful. [f. prec. + -FUL: an unusual formation.] Full of blessing, either as imparting it or as enjoying it.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 11234 (Gött.). Þat bl[i]ssidful birth in betheleem.
c. 1400. Lay-Folks Mass-Bk., App. iii. 123. Þis hooly and blessydful sacramente.
c. 1400. Epiph. (Turnb., 1843), 123. Unto the … we clepe and call, Thou blestful quene.
1556. Veron, Godly Sayings (1846), 253. That blessedful and everlastynge lyfe.
a. 1618. Raleigh, Pilgr. (1651), 136. That happy blestfull day.
Hence Blessedfully adv., Blessedfulness.
a. 1500. in Wright’s Songs & Carols (1847), 22 (Mätz.). The braunch so blessedfully sprong.
1526. Tindale, Rom. iv. 6. David desscribeth the blessedfulnes of a man. [So in 1557.]
