beatify > define

verb

• Fill with sublime emotion.
  • usage: "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success"
  • synonyms: exhilarate, tickle pink, inebriate, thrill, exalt
• Make blessedly happy.
• Declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood.
  • usage: "On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican"

• (v.t.) To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.
• (v.t.) To pronounce or regard as happy or supremely blessed or as conferring happiness.
• (v.t.) 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.