beatify

verb
🔊/biˈætɪfaɪ/
🔊/biˈætɪfaɪ/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they beatify
🔊/biˈætɪfaɪ/
🔊/biˈætɪfaɪ/
he / she / it beatifies
🔊/biˈætɪfaɪz/
🔊/biˈætɪfaɪz/
past simple beatified
🔊/biˈætɪfaɪd/
🔊/biˈætɪfaɪd/
past participle beatified
🔊/biˈætɪfaɪd/
🔊/biˈætɪfaɪd/
-ing form beatifying
🔊/biˈætɪfaɪɪŋ/
🔊/biˈætɪfaɪɪŋ/
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  1. beatify somebody (of the Pope教皇) to give a dead person a special honour by stating officially that he/she is very holy为(逝者)行宣福礼 compare bless, canonizeTopics Religion and festivalsc2
    Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘make blessed or supremely happy’): from Old French beatifier or ecclesiastical Latin beatificare, from Latin beatus ‘blessed’.