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

Etymology

Verb

beatify (third-person singular simple present beatifies, present participle beatifying, simple past and past participle beatified)

(transitive) To make blissful.

(transitive) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.

(transitive, Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.

Source: Wiktionary

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