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English
Adjective
beatified (not comparable)
- Blissful or supremely blessed.
1695, John Dryden, “Preface of the Translator, with a Parallel, of Poetry and Painting”, in C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, , London: J Heptinstall for W. Rogers, , →OCLC, page ix:I [the painter Guido Reni] wiſh I had the wings of an Angel, to have aſcended into Paradiſe, and there to have beheld the Forms of thoſe beatify'd Spirits, from which I might have copy'd my Archangel: […]
- (Roman Catholicism) Having been recognized and declared, by the church, that a deceased has entered heaven; having attained this step in the process of canonization.
Translations
made blissful or supremely blessed
declared that a deceased has entered heaven
Verb
beatified
- simple past and past participle of beatify