noun. Supreme blessedness or happiness.

noun. Any of the declarations of blessedness made by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.

noun. Used as a title and form of address for a patriarch in the Armenian Church or a metropolitan in the Russian Orthodox Church.

noun. Supreme blessedness; felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss; hence, in a less restricted sense, any extreme pleasure or satisfaction.

noun. One of the eight ascriptions of blessedness to those who possess particular virtues, pronounced by Christ in the Sermon on the Mount, Mat. v. 3-11: so named from the word “blessed” (in the Latin, beati), with which each declaration or ascription begins.

noun. Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.

noun. Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues.

noun. Beatification.

noun. Supreme, utmost bliss and happiness.

noun. Any one of the Biblical blessings given by Jesus in Matthew 5:3–12. E.g.: "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth"(Matthew 5:5).

noun. one of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount; in Latin each saying begins with `beatus' (blessed)

noun. a state of supreme happiness