different between beatify vs beatification

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

From Middle French béatification, from Medieval Latin be?tific?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bi?æt?f??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

beatification (countable and uncountable, plural beatifications)

1. The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; especially, in the Roman Catholic Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, — usually a stage in the process of canonization.

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