Meanings
adjectivebeatified (not comparable)
- not comparableBlissful or supremely blessed.
I [the painter Guido Reni] wiſh I had the wings of an Angel, to have aſcended into Paradiſe, and there to have beheld the Forms of thoſe beatify'd Spirits, from which I might have copy'd my Archangel: […]
1695, John Dryden, “Preface of the Translator, with a Parallel, of Poetry and Painting”, in C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC, page ix - not comparableCatholicismHaving been recognized and declared, by the church, that a deceased has entered heaven; having attained this step in the process of canonization.
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of beatify
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveRoman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Dutch zalig
- zaligdeclared that a deceased has entered heaven
Portuguese beatificado
- beatificadomade blissful or supremely blessed
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