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Beatify

//biˈætɪfaɪ// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make blissful. transitive
  2. 2
    declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood wordnet
  3. 3
    To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness. transitive

    "[T]hat assertion of the wise man: 'Labor not for riches; wilt thou set thy heart on that which is not?' it, well applied, will pluck down the high places reared to this great idol of clay in men's hearts: will confute the common conceits and phrases which so beatify wealth; […]"

  4. 4
    make blessedly happy wordnet
  5. 5
    To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed. transitive
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  1. 6
    fill with sublime emotion wordnet

Etymology

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

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