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

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche