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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Beatify \Be*at"i*fy\ (b[-e]*[a^]t"[i^]*f[imac]), verb (used with an object) [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.
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.) 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
beatified \be*at"i*fied\ (b[-e]*[a^]t"[i^]*f[imac]d), adjective (Roman Catholic Church) proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration.
Syn: blessed. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
beatified
adjective: Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration [syn: {blessed}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
beatify
verb
1: fill with sublime emotion; tickle pink (exhilarate is obsolete in this usage); "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success" [syn: {exhilarate},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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