Be*at"i*fy (b&esl;*ăt"&ibreve;*fī), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beatified (-fīd); p. pr. & vb. n.
Beatifying.]
[L. beatificare;
beatus happy (fr. beare to bless, akin to bonus good) + facere
to make: cf. F. béatifier. See Bounty.]
1. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth.
Barrow.
2.
To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment. "Beatified spirits."
Dryden.
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.
Hear it pronounced