Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
BEATIFIED
beatified, blessed
(adjective) Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration
BEATIFY
beatify
(verb) declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood; “On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican”
beatify
(verb) make blessedly happy
exhilarate, tickle pink, inebriate, thrill, exalt, beatify
(verb) fill with sublime emotion; “The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies”; “He was inebriated by his phenomenal success”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
beatified (not comparable)
(Roman Catholic) Having been recognized and declared, by the church, that a deceased has entered heaven; having attained this step in the process of canonization.
Verb
beatified
simple past tense and past participle of beatify
Source: Wiktionary
BEATIFY
Be*at"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beatified (p. pr. & vb. n. Beatifying.] Etym: [L. beatificare; beatus happy (fr. beare to bless, akin to bonus good) + facere to make: cf. F. béatifier. See Bounty.]
1. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness. The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth. Barrow.
2. To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment. "Beatified spirits." Dryden.
3. (R. C. Ch.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNMARRIED
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