BEATIFY

beatify. Beatify, v.t. to bless, to make happy or blessed

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Be‐at″i‐fy (bē̍‐ăt″ĭ‐fī), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beatified (–fīd); p. pr. & vb. n. Beatifying.] [[L. beatificare; beatus happy (fr. beare to bless, akin to bonus good) + facere to make: cf. F. béatifier. See Bounty.]] 1. 1. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth. Barrow. 2. 2. To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment. “Beatified spirits.” Dryden.
3. 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.