Associations to the word «Beatify»

Wiktionary

BEATIFY, verb. (transitive) To make blissful.
BEATIFY, verb. (transitive) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
BEATIFY, verb. (transitive) (Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.

Dictionary definition

BEATIFY, verb. Fill with sublime emotion; "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success".
BEATIFY, verb. Make blessedly happy.
BEATIFY, verb. Declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood; "On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope