beatify Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb fill with sublime emotion
    thrill; tickle pink; inebriate; exalt; exhilarate.
    • The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies
    • 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

WordNet

Be*at"i*fy transitive verb
Etymology
L. beatificare; beatus happy (fr. beare to bless, akin to bonus good) + facere to make: cf. F. béatifier. See Bounty.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Beatified (); present participle & verbal noun Beatifying
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913