Definition of beatify Beatify

/biæˈtʌfajˌ/ - [beeatufay] - be•at•i•fy

We found 11 definitions of beatify from 5 different sources.

What does beatify mean?

Verb beatifies, beatifying, beatified
beatify - make blessedly happy
		elate, lift up, intoxicate, uplift, pick up fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits"
beatify - declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood; "On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican"
		adjudge, declare, hold state firmly; "He declared that he was innocent"
beatify - fill with sublime emotion; "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success"
		exhilarate, tickle pink, inebriate, thrill, exalt
		elate, lift up, intoxicate, uplift, pick up fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits"

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beatify (Verb)
To make blissful.
beatify (Verb)
To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
beatify (Verb)
To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a saint.

beatify (v. t.)
To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
beatify (v. t.)
To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.
beatify (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.

beatify
bē-at′i-fī, v.t. to make blessed or happy: to declare to be in the enjoyment of eternal happiness in heaven.—adjs. Beatif′ic, -al, making supremely happy.—adv. Beatif′ically.—n. Beatificā′tion, act of beatifying: (R.C. Church) a declaration by the Pope that a person is blessed in heaven, authorising a certain definite form of public reverence payable to him—the first step to canonisation.—Beatific vision, a glimpse of the glory of heaven, esp. that which first bursts upon the disembodied soul. [L. beatus, blessed, and facĕre, to make.]