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. 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.