† beheavenv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To endow with celestial bliss, to beatify.
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1601 W. Parry New Disc. Trauels Sir A. Sherley 2 Such a man..woulde..be beheauened with the ioy.
1609 J. Davies Holy Roode sig. B1 O faire Ierusalem... Yet wast beheau'nd through blessed Bethelem.
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