| 1. to praise, celebrate with praises
2. to invoke blessings 3. to consecrate a thing with solemn prayers 1) to ask God's blessing on a thing 2) pray God to bless it to one's use 3) pronounce a consecratory blessing on 4. of God 1) to cause to prosper, to make happy, to bestow blessings on 2) favoured of God, blessed |