beatify

From French beatifier, from Medieval Latin beātifico (“I bless”).

• IPA^(key): /biːˈætɪfaɪ/

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beatify (third-person singular simple present beatifies, present participle beatifying, simple past and past participle beatified)

1. (transitive) To make blissful.
   • Dryden

     Beatified spirits.

2. (transitive) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
   • Barrow

     The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth.

3. (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.

• beatification
• Blessed