Be-ăt'i-fy, v. t.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. BEATIFIED; p. pr. & vb. n. BEATIFYING.] [Fr. béatifier, Lat. beatificare, from beatus, happy, from beare, to bless, and facere, to make.] 1. To pronounce or regard as happy, 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. (Rom. Cath. Church.) To declare, by a decree or public act, that a person is received into heaven, and is to be reverenced as blessed, though not canonized.