different between neatify vs beatify

English

Etymology

From neat +? -ify.

Verb

neatify (third-person singular simple present neatifies, present participle neatifying, simple past and past participle neatified)

1. (obsolete) To make neat or clean; to purify. [16th-17th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.9:

     It is then no convenient time for a man to wash and netifie [transl. decrasser] himselfe when he is assailed by a violent fever.

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

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