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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Beatify \Be*at"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beatified} (?); p. pr & vb n. {Beatifying}.] [L. beatificare beatus happy (fr. beare to bless, akin to bonus good) + facere to make: cf F. b['e]atifier. See {Bounty}.] 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: beatify v : in the Catholic church; declare to be a saint; "On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican" [syn: {canonize}, {saint}]
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