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

  beatified \be*at"i*fied\ (b[-e]*[a^]t"[i^]*f[imac]d), adj.
     (Roman Catholic Church)
     proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration.
  
     Syn: blessed.
          [WordNet 1.5]



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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth.
                                                    --Barrow.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial
        enjoyment. "Beatified spirits." --Dryden.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  beatified
       adj : Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus
             worthy of veneration [syn: {blessed}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  beatify
       v 1: fill with sublime emotion; tickle pink (exhilarate is
            obsolete in this usage); "The children were thrilled at
            the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated
            by his phenomenal success" [syn: {exhilarate}, {inebriate},
             {thrill}, {exalt}]
       2: make blessedly happy
       3: declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of
          achieving sainthood; "On Sunday, the martyr will be
          beatified by the Vatican"
       [also: {beatified}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  beatified
       See {beatify}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  87 Moby Thesaurus words for "beatified":
     Elysian, Olympian, aggrandized, angelic, apotheosized, archangelic,
     awesome, beaming, beatific, big, blessed, blissful, canonized,
     capering, celestial, cheerful, cherubic, chirping, consecrated,
     dancing, dedicated, deified, devoted, elevated, eminent, ennobled,
     enshrined, enthroned, ethereal, exalted, excellent, extramundane,
     extraterrestrial, flushed with joy, from on high, gay, glad,
     glorified, glowing, grand, great, hallowed, happy, heavenly,
     held in awe, high, high and mighty, immortal, immortalized,
     in glory, joyful, joyous, laughing, leaping, lofty, magnified,
     martyred, mighty, otherworldly, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisiac,
     paradisic, purring, radiant, redeemed, sainted, saintly,
     sanctified, saved, seraphic, set apart, shrined, singing, smiling,
     smirking, sparkling, starry-eyed, sublime, supereminent, supernal,
     thrice happy, throned, transcendental, transmundane, unearthly,
     unworldly
  
  

















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