Beatified
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Beatify \Be*at"i*fy\ (b[-e]*[a^]t"[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [imp. &
p. p. {Beatified} (b[-e]*[a^]t"[i^]*f[imac]d); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Beatifying}.] [L. beatificare; beatus happy (fr. beare to
bless, akin to bonus good) + facere to make: cf. F.
b['e]atifier. See {Bounty}.]
1. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or
as conferring happiness.
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The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth.
--Barrow.
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2. To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial
enjoyment. "Beatified spirits." --Dryden.
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3. (R. C. Ch.) 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.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "beatified":
Elysian, Olympian, aggrandized, angelic, apotheosized, archangelic,
awesome, beaming, beatific, big, blessed, blissful, canonized,
capering, celestial, cheerful, cherubic, chirping, consecrated,
dancing, dedicated, deified, devoted, elevated, eminent, ennobled,
enshrined, enthroned, ethereal, exalted, excellent, extramundane,
extraterrestrial, flushed with joy, from on high, gay, glad,
glorified, glowing, grand, great, hallowed, happy, heavenly,
held in awe, high, high and mighty, immortal, immortalized,
in glory, joyful, joyous, laughing, leaping, lofty, magnified,
martyred, mighty, otherworldly, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisiac,
paradisic, purring, radiant, redeemed, sainted, saintly,
sanctified, saved, seraphic, set apart, shrined, singing, smiling,
smirking, sparkling, starry-eyed, sublime, supereminent, supernal,
thrice happy, throned, transcendental, transmundane, unearthly,
unworldly
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