Associations to the word «Beatify»

Wiktionary

BEATIFY, verb. (transitive) To make blissful.
BEATIFY, verb. (transitive) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
BEATIFY, verb. (transitive) (Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.

Dictionary definition

BEATIFY, verb. Fill with sublime emotion; "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success".
BEATIFY, verb. Make blessedly happy.
BEATIFY, verb. Declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood; "On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin