beatific

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BEATIF'IC BEATIF'ICAL, adjective [Latin beatus, blessed, from beo, to bless, and facio, to make. See Beatify.] That has the power to bless or make happy, or the power to complete blissful enjoyment; used only of heavenly fruition after death; as beatific vision.
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