Defn: Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful. "The beatific vision." South. — Be`a*tif"ic*al*ly, adv.
BEATIFICATE
Be`a*tif"i*cate, v. t.
Defn: To beatify. [Obs.] Fuller.
BEATIFICATION
Be*at`i*fi*ca"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. béatification.]
Defn: The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, — usually a stage in the process of canonization. "The beatification of his spirit." Jer. Taylor.
BEATIFY
Be*at"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beatified (p. pr. & vb. n.
Beatifying.] Etym: [L. beatificare; beatus happy (fr. beare to bless,
akin to bonus good) + facere to make: cf. F. béatifier. See Bounty.]
1. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness. The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth. Barrow.
2. To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment. "Beatified spirits." Dryden.
3. (R. C. Ch.)
Defn: To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of "the blessed" and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized.