Definition of Beatified

1. Adjective. Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration.

Exact synonyms: Blessed
Similar to: Holy

Definition of Beatified

1. Adjective. (context: Roman Catholic) Having been recognized and declared, by the church, that a deceased has entered heaven; having attained this step in the process of canonization. ¹

2. Verb. (past of beatify) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Beatified

1. beatify [v] - See also: beatify

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beatified

beaten up
beater
beater-upper
beater-uppers
beaters
beath
beathed
beathing
beaths
beatific
beatific vision
beatifical
beatifically
beatification
beatifications
beatified (current term)
beatifies
beatify
beatifying
beatin'
beating-heart transplant
beating-heart transplants
beating-reed instrument
beating around the bush
beating down
beating off
beating up
beatings
beatitude

Literary usage of Beatified

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)
"She was beatified in 1675, by Clement V, but not canonized till 1737, by Clement XII. Meantime, her writings had been examined by the Holy Office and ..."

2. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund, Edward Byles Cowell, Frederick William Thomas (1907)
"... after fulfilling a period of sixteen years he was beatified on Mount ... except that the city was Saee, the period twelve years; he was beatified on ..."

3. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"... good Captain Recce beatified " The Mantelpiece." One summer eve, at half-past ten, He said (addressing all his men): "Come, tell me, please, ..."

4. Studies in Russia by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1902)
"It is a S. BASIL THE beatified. central octagon, surrounded by eight smaller ones, raised on a platform, and with a crypt beneath. ..."

5. Chinese Central Asia: A Ride to Little Tibet by Henry Lansdell (1893)
"Supposed results of Buddhist teaching; Buddhist aspirations towards a beatified life, 92.—Relics of Buddhism, 94 — The recently discovered Bower ..."

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