BEATIFY

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness. The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth. Barrow.

2.
v.

To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment. "Beatified spirits." Dryden.

3.
v.

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.

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