Beatify

[bɪ'ætɪfaɪ]

Definition

(verb.) declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood; 'On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican'.

(verb.) make blessedly happy.

Checked by Justin--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.

(v. t.) To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.

(v. t.) To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of "the blessed" and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized.

Typist: Phil

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Enrapture, enchant, transport, enravish, make happy.

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Definition

v.t. to make blessed or happy: to declare to be in the enjoyment of eternal happiness in heaven.—adjs. Beatif′ic -al making supremely happy.—adv. Beatif′ically.—n. Beatificā′tion act of beatifying: (R.C. Church) a declaration by the Pope that a person is blessed in heaven authorising a certain definite form of public reverence payable to him—the first step to canonisation.—Beatific vision a glimpse of the glory of heaven esp. that which first bursts upon the disembodied soul.

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