English Explanatory Dictionary

beatify

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To make blissful.
  2. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
  3. To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.

Pronunciation

/biˈætɪfaɪ/ En-us-beatify.ogg

Word forms

beatify beatifies beatifying beatified

Etymology

From French béatifier, from Medieval Latin beātifico (“I bless”).

Synonyms

blissen elate beatify enrapture begladden bright cheer fetch cheer up cherish content delight elevate enbliss exhilarate fain gay gladden gladden someone's heart gratify happify happy hearten jollify laetificate light up make someone's day perk up please raise someone's spirits rejoice turn the frown upside down upcheer warm someone's heart warm the cockles of someone's heart

Related words

beatification Blessed
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