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beatify
[ bee-at-uh-fahy ]
verb (used with object)
- to make blissfully happy.
- Roman Catholic Church. to declare (a deceased person) to be among the blessed and therefore entitled to local but not universal veneration. Compare canonize ( def 1 ).
beatify
/ bɪˌætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən; bɪˈætɪˌfaɪ /
verb
- tr RC Church (of the pope) to declare formally that (a deceased person) showed a heroic degree of holiness in his or her life and therefore is worthy of public veneration: the first step towards canonization
- tr to make extremely happy
Derived Forms
- beatification, noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of beatify1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of beatify1
Example Sentences
He was previously beatified - attributed his first miracle - in 2020, the healing of a Brazilian child diagnosed with a congenital disease.
For them, there is more than just basketball at play and their issue isn’t with Clark, but rather the hype machine that has beatified her.
It is the first time that an entire family has been beatified.
Those beatified are declared "blessed" and worthy of public veneration.
The Catholic Church faced a dilemma in beatifying Wiktoria’s unborn child and declaring it a martyr because, among other things, it had not been baptized, which is a requirement for beatification.
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