1.
[syn: beatified, blessed]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
beatified \be*at"i*fied\ (b[-e]*[a^]t"[i^]*f[imac]d), adj.
(Roman Catholic Church)
proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration.
Syn: blessed.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Beatify \Be*at"i*fy\ (b[-e]*[a^]t"[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [imp. &
p. p. Beatified (b[-e]*[a^]t"[i^]*f[imac]d); p. pr. & vb.
n. Beatifying.] [L. beatificare; beatus happy (fr. beare to
bless, akin to bonus good) + facere to make: cf. F.
b['e]atifier. See Bounty.]
1. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or
as conferring happiness.
[1913 Webster]
The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth.
--Barrow.
[1913 Webster]
2. To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial
enjoyment. "Beatified spirits." --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
3. (R. C. Ch.) 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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
beatified
adj 1: Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus
worthy of veneration [syn: beatified, blessed]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "beatified":
Elysian, Olympian, aggrandized, angelic, apotheosized, archangelic,
awesome, beaming, beatific, big, blessed, blissful, canonized,
capering, celestial, cheerful, cherubic, chirping, consecrated,
dancing, dedicated, deified, devoted, elevated, eminent, ennobled,
enshrined, enthroned, ethereal, exalted, excellent, extramundane,
extraterrestrial, flushed with joy, from on high, gay, glad,
glorified, glowing, grand, great, hallowed, happy, heavenly,
held in awe, high, high and mighty, immortal, immortalized,
in glory, joyful, joyous, laughing, leaping, lofty, magnified,
martyred, mighty, otherworldly, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisiac,
paradisic, purring, radiant, redeemed, sainted, saintly,
sanctified, saved, seraphic, set apart, shrined, singing, smiling,
smirking, sparkling, starry-eyed, sublime, supereminent, supernal,
thrice happy, throned, transcendental, transmundane, unearthly,
unworldly