beatify
verb /biˈætɪfaɪ/
/biˈætɪfaɪ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they beatify | /biˈætɪfaɪ/ /biˈætɪfaɪ/ |
| he / she / it beatifies | /biˈætɪfaɪz/ /biˈætɪfaɪz/ |
| past simple beatified | /biˈætɪfaɪd/ /biˈætɪfaɪd/ |
| past participle beatified | /biˈætɪfaɪd/ /biˈætɪfaɪd/ |
| -ing form beatifying | /biˈætɪfaɪɪŋ/ /biˈætɪfaɪɪŋ/ |
- beatify somebody (of the Pope) to give a dead person a special honour by stating officially that he/she is very holy compare bless, canonizeTopics Religion and festivalsc2Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘make blessed or supremely happy’): from Old French beatifier or ecclesiastical Latin beatificare, from Latin beatus ‘blessed’.