beatificate

English

Etymology

beatific +‎ -ate

Verb

beatificate (third-person singular simple present beatificates, present participle beatificating, simple past and past participle beatificated)

1. (obsolete) To beatify.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:

     It seemed good therefore to his Holiness , not to canonise Garnet for a solemn saint , much less for a martyr , but only to beatificate him

   • 1812, Charles Paul Landon, A Collection of Etchings […] :

     The composition, not offering any historical fact, but an assemblage of beatificated personages, who lived at different periods, it is needless to give an account of it.

References

• “beatificate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

beatificate

1. inflection of beatificare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

beatificate f pl

1. feminine plural of beatificato

Latin

Verb

beātificāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of beātificō

Spanish

Verb

beatificate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of beatificar combined with te