Meanings
present singular third person beatifies · participle present beatifying · participle past beatified · past beatified
- transitiveTo pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
[T]hat assertion of the wise man: 'Labor not for riches; wilt thou set thy heart on that which is not?' it, well applied, will pluck down the high places reared to this great idol of clay in men's hearts: will confute the common conceits and phrases which so beatify wealth; […]
a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “Sermon XLVI. The Consideration of our Latter End.”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume III, London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1831, →OCLC, page 200 - transitiveCatholicismTo carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo make blissful.
More synonyms by meaning
verbfill with sublime emotion
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Origin
- Medieval Latinbeātifico“I bless”
- Frenchbéatifier
- Englishbeatify
From French béatifier, from Medieval Latin beātifico (“I bless”).
More words from French, Medieval Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan beatificar, beatificar
- beatificarto make blissful
- beatificarto take step in declaring a person a saint
Danish saliggøre, saligkåre
- saliggøreto make blissful
- saligkåreto take step in declaring a person a saint
Finnish tehdä autuaaksi, autuuttaa
- tehdä autuaaksito make blissful
- autuuttaato make blissful
- julistaa autuaaksito take step in declaring a person a saint
- autuuttaato take step in declaring a person a saint
French béatifier
- béatifierto take step in declaring a person a saint
German seligsprechen
- seligsprechento take step in declaring a person a saint
Hungarian boldoggá avat
- boldoggá avatto take step in declaring a person a saint
Irish beannaigh
- beannaighto take step in declaring a person a saint
Italian beatificare
- beatificareto take step in declaring a person a saint
Korean 시복하다
- 시복하다 (sibokhada)to take step in declaring a person a saint
Norwegian Bokmål saliggjøre, saligkåre
- saliggjøreto make blissful
- saligkåreto take step in declaring a person a saint
Polish beatyfikować
- beatyfikowaćto take step in declaring a person a saint
Portuguese beatificar
- beatificarto take step in declaring a person a saint
Spanish beatificar
- beatificarto take step in declaring a person a saint
Swedish saligförklara, beatificera
- saligförklarato take step in declaring a person a saint
- beatificerato take step in declaring a person a saint
Welsh gwynfydoli, gwynfydedigo
- gwynfydolito take step in declaring a person a saint
- gwynfydedigoto take step in declaring a person a saint
Cite this entry
beatify. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beatify
“beatify.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beatify. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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