BEAT'IFY, verb transitive [Latin beatus, happy, from beo, to bless, and facio, to make.] 1. To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment. 2. In the Romish church, to declare, by a decree or public act, that a person is received into heaven, and is to be reverenced as blessed, though not canonized.
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