Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Beatified"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Beatify \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
beatified
adj : Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus
worthy of veneration [syn: {blessed}]
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