Meanings
comparative more beatific · superlative most beatific
- Blessed, blissful, heavenly.
Since the physical body is really a filter which shuts out the psychic realms, when one is out of the body one is out of the protection of the wall: whatever one thinks is immediately experienced - nightmare or beatific vision.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 1781 more example
The crowd is rapturous and Swift beatific as she gazes out at us, all high on the same drug. Her fans are singularly passionate, not just in the venue but also online, as they analyze clues, hints, and secret messages in everything from her choreography to her costumes—some deliberately planted, others not.
2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2023 - Having a benign appearance.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveexperiencing or bestowing celestial joy
adjectivemarked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinbeātificus“making happy or blessed”
- Englishbeatific
From Latin beātificus (“making happy or blessed”), from beātus (“blessed”) + -ficus (“making”).
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