beatify

English

Etymology

From French beatifier, from Medieval Latin beātifico (“I bless”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biːˈætɪfaɪ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Verb

beatify (third-person singular simple present beatif, present participle ies, simple past and past participle beatified)

1. (transitive) To make blissful.
   • Dryden

     Beatified spirits.

2. (transitive) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
   • Barrow

     The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth.

3. (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.

Related terms

• beatification
• Blessed

Translations

to make blissful

• Catalan: beatificar
• Danish: saliggøre
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: tehdä autuaaksi, autuuttaa

to take step in declaring a person a saint

• Catalan: beatificar
• Danish: saligkåre
• Finnish: julistaa autuaaksi, autuuttaa
• French: béatifier (fr)
• German: seligsprechen
• Hungarian: boldoggá avat
• Irish: beannaigh
• Italian: beatificare (it)
• Korean: 시복하다 (sibokhada)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: saligkåre

  Nynorsk: saligkåre

• Polish: beatyfikować (pl)
• Portuguese: beatificar (pt)
• Spanish: beatificar (es)
• Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: gwynfydoli, gwynfydedigo