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beatificate

verb

  1. beatify
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Wiktionary

verb

Etymology: From Latin beātificāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of beātificō (“to bless, to make happy”). Equivalent to beatific + -ate.

  1. 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

    The composition, not offering any historical fact, but an assemblage of beatificated personages, who lived at different periods, it is needless to give an account of it.