beatify

beatify
    v 1: fill with sublime emotion; "The children were thrilled at
         the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by
         his phenomenal success" [syn: {exhilarate}, {tickle pink},
         {inebriate}, {thrill}, {exalt}, {beatify}]
    2: make blessedly happy
    3: declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of
       achieving sainthood; "On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified
       by the Vatican"
    

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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35 Moby Thesaurus words for "beatify":
      aggrandize, apotheose, apotheosize, bless, canonize, cheer,
      cleanse, consecrate, crown, dedicate, deify, devote, elevate,
      ennoble, enshrine, enthrone, exalt, gladden, glamorize, glorify,
      hallow, happify, immortalize, lionize, magnify, make happy,
      make legendary, purify, raise, saint, sanctify, set apart, set up,
      throne, uplift