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Definition of Beatific

1. Adjective. Experiencing or bestowing celestial joy. "Beatific peace"

2. Adjective. Marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint. "My sainted mother"

Definition of Beatific

1. a. Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful.

Definition of Beatific

1. Adjective. blessed, blissful, heavenly ¹

2. Adjective. having a benign appearance ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Beatific

1. blissful [adj] - See also: blissful

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beatific

beaten-up beaten a dead horse beaten around the bush beaten down beaten off beaten track beaten up beater beater-upper beater-uppers

beaters beath beathed beathing beaths beatific (current term) beatific vision beatifical beatifically beatification

beatifications beatified beatifies beatify beatifying beatin' beating-heart transplant beating-heart transplants beating-reed instrument

Literary usage of Beatific

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"1) that man has a natural desire for the beatific vision. Elsewhere, however, he frequently insists on the supernatural character of that vision (eg Ill, ..."

2. The Future Life: According to the Authority of Divine Revelation, the by Joseph Casimir Sasia (1918)
"10 The Secret of the First Mass on Christmas Day seems to insinuate the same wonderful transformation effected by the beatific vision: "... that through Thy ..."

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