beatify
English
Etymology
From French beatifier, from Medieval Latin beātifico (“I bless”).
Pronunciation
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Verb
beatify (third-person singular simple present beatif, present participle ies, simple past and past participle beatified)
- (transitive) To make blissful.
- Dryden
- Beatified spirits.
- Dryden
- (transitive) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
- Barrow
- The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth.
- Barrow
- (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.
Related terms
Translations
to make blissful
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to take step in declaring a person a saint
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