| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Present participle | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb beatify.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (beatify) | 1. Fill with sublime emotion.[Wordnet]. 2. Make blessedly happy.[Wordnet]. 3. Declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood.[Wordnet]. 4. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.[Websters]. 5. To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.[Websters]. 6. 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.[Websters]. 7. Base verb from the following inflections: beatifying, beatified, beatifies, beatifier, beatifiers, beatifyingly and beatifiedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "BEATIFYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: beatify
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] In the Roman Catholic church, a step in the process of declaring a person a saint. (references) | 2: [Verb] To make blissful. (references) | |
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