資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Beatify \Be*at"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beatified} (?); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Beatifying}.] [L. beatificare; beatus happy
   (fr. beare to bless, akin to bonus good) + facere to make:
   cf. F. b['e]atifier. 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.