different between beatify vs beatificate

English

Etymology

From French beatifier, from Medieval Latin be?tifico (“I bless”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi??æt?fa?/

Verb

beatify (third-person singular simple present beatifies, present participle beatifying, simple past and past participle beatified)

1. (transitive) To make blissful.
   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, A Parallel of Poetry and Painting

     Beatified spirits.

2. (transitive) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Consideration of our Latter End (sermon)

     The common conceits and phrases which beatify wealth.

3. (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.

Related terms

• beatification
• Blessed

Translations

English

Etymology

beatific +? -ate

Verb

beatificate (third-person singular simple present beatificates, present participle beatificating, simple past and past participle beatificated)

1. (obsolete, religion) To beatify.

   • It seemed good therefore to his Holiness , not to canonise Garnet for a solemn saint , much less for a martyr , but only to beatificate him

Italian

Verb

beatificate

1. second-person plural present indicative of beatificare
2. second-person plural imperative of beatificare
3. feminine plural of beatificato

Latin

Verb

be?tific?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of be?tific?