beatificate

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verb

To beatify.

OriginLatin beātificāt- →
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Meanings

verbbeatificate (third-person singular simple present beatificates, present participle beatificating, simple past and past participle beatificated)

present singular third person beatificates · participle present beatificating · participle past beatificated · past beatificated

  1. obsoleteTo beatify.

    It seemed good therefore to his Holiness , not to canonise Garnet for a solemn saint , much less for a martyr , but only to beatificate him

    1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
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    The composition, not offering any historical fact, but an assemblage of beatificated personages, who lived at different periods, it is needless to give an account of it.

    1812, Charles Paul Landon, A Collection of Etchings […]

Origin

  1. Latinbeātificāt-
  2. Englishbeatificate

From Latin beātificāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of beātificō (“to bless, to make happy”). Equivalent to beatific + -ate.

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APA

beatificate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beatificate

MLA

“beatificate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beatificate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “beatificate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beatificate.

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