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beatified > 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"
  • 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"

adjective

  • Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration.
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(imp.&p.p.) of Beatify.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary