Thesaurus: beatify

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1. v. t. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
2. v. t. To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.
3. v. t. 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.
4. v. fill with sublime emotion
5. v. make blessedly happy
6. v. declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood
7. 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.
8. To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, thata deceased person is one of "the blessed" and is to be reverenced assuch, though not canonized.
9. v:100 v. make blessedly happy v. declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood