Beatifying

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Beatify \Be*at"i*fy\ (b[-e]*[a^]t"[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [imp. &
     p. p. {Beatified} (b[-e]*[a^]t"[i^]*f[imac]d); p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Beatifying}.] [L. beatificare; beatus happy (fr. beare to
     bless, akin to bonus good) + facere to make: cf. F.
     b['e]atifier. See {Bounty}.]
     1. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or


        as conferring happiness.
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              The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth.
                                                    --Barrow.
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     2. To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial
        enjoyment. "Beatified spirits." --Dryden.
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     3. (R. C. Ch.) 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.
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