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beatify

Pronunciation: /biˈætɪfaɪ/

The English word “beatify” has 3 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To make blissful.
  2. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
  3. To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.

Etymology

From French béatifier, from Medieval Latin beātifico (“I bless”).

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