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English
Etymology
From Latin beātificāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of beātificō (“to bless, to make happy”). Equivalent to beatific + -ate.
Verb
beatificate (third-person singular simple present beatificates, present participle beatificating, simple past and past participle beatificated)
- (obsolete) To beatify.
1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; , London: Iohn Williams , →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):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
1812, Charles Paul Landon, A Collection of Etchings :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.
References
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
beatificate
- inflection of beatificare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
beatificate f pl
- feminine plural of beatificato
Latin
Verb
beātificāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of beātificō
Spanish
Verb
beatificate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of beatificar combined with te