Lexic.us

Definition of Beatify

1. Verb. Fill with sublime emotion. "The performance is likely to beatify Sue"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success"

2. Verb. Make blessedly happy.

3. Verb. Declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood. "On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican"

Definition of Beatify

1. v. t. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.

Definition of Beatify

1. Verb. To make blissful. ¹

2. Verb. (Roman Catholicism) To take a step in the process of declaring a person a saint.(attention en topic=Christianity any step, or a particular step? Also, is this intransitive, as implied by this definition?) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Beatify

1. to make happy [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES] - See also: happy

Medical Definition of Beatify

1. 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." 3. 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 canonised. Origin: L. Beatificare; beatus happy (fr. Beare to bless, akin to bonus good) + facere = to make: cf. F. Beatifier. See: Bounty. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beatify

beater-upper beater-uppers beaters beath beathed beathing beaths beatific beatific vision beatifical

beatifically beatification beatifications beatified beatifies beatify (current term) beatifying beatin' beating-heart transplant beating-heart transplants

beating-reed instrument beating around the bush beating down beating off beating up beatings beatitude beatitudes beatless

Literary usage of Beatify

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

1. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1880)
"We should not like to have to look for the word “beatify” in gn English dictionary under ... beatify ..."

2. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"4« Direction, course, aim, aspect, point of compass. 3. Endurance« suffering, enduring, patience, long-suffering. beatify, va I. Enrapture, rapture, ..."

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