About The Word Beatify
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Beatify
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What's The Definition Of Beatify?
[v] declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood; "On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican"
[v] make blessedly happy [v] fill with sublime emotion; tickle pink (exhilarate is obsolete in this usage); "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success" Synonyms | Synonyms for Beatify: exalt | exhilarate | inebriate | thrill Related Terms | Find terms related to Beatify: aggrandize | apotheose | apotheosize | bless | canonize | cheer | cleanse | consecrate | crown | dedicate | deify | devote | elevate | ennoble | enshrine | enthrone | exalt | gladden | glamorize | glorify | hallow | happify | immortalize | lionize | magnify | make happy | make legendary | purify | raise | saint | sanctify | set apart | set up | throne | uplift See Also | adjudge | declare | elate | hold | intoxicate | lift up | pick up | uplift Beatify In Webster's Dictionary \Be*at"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beatified} (?); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Beatifying}.] [L. beatificare; beatus happy
(fr. beare to bless, akin to bonus good) + facere to make:
cf. F. b['e]atifier. See {Bounty}.]
1. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or
as conferring happiness.
The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth.
--Barrow.
2. To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial
enjoyment. ``Beatified spirits.'' --Dryden.
3. (R. C. Ch.) 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.
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