Beatify
verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 To make blissful. transitive
- 2 declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood wordnet
- 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 make blessedly happy wordnet
- 5 To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed. transitive
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- 6 fill with sublime emotion wordnet
Example
More examples"[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; […]"
Etymology
From French béatifier, from Medieval Latin beātifico (“I bless”).
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