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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)