beatified

American  

[bee-at-uh-fahyd] / biˈæt əˌfaɪd /

adjective

1. Roman Catholic Church. being or relating to a deceased person declared to be among the blessed, and therefore entitled to local but not universal veneration.

   The earliest beatified martyrs in the Americas are three Jesuits from Paraguay.

2. blissfully happy.

   She returned from the date in a beatified state of mind, chatting about it enthusiastically.

   It’s not often that the dying utter memorable words, see visions, or depart with beatified faces.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of beatify.

Etymology

Origin of beatified

First recorded in 1570–80; beatify ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective senses; beatify ( def. ) + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb sense

Example Sentences

Beatified in 1923�the Roman Catholic officials waiving the custom that 50 years must elapse before a "cause" is begun�she was canonized in 1925 as St. Th�r�se of the Infant Jesus.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dates: 1901-1925 Status of Cause: Beatified Prognosis: Good A "blessed" who could have fit right into People's "most beautiful" issue, Frassati was the handsome son of one of Italy's foremost publishers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Zeal of an unknown infinite Yet bade me ever wish you more Beatified than e’er before.

From Victories of Love by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton

If we turn his compound designation into English, it runs thus—"the Beatified Friar John the Angelic of Fiesole."

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various

Wise Men who seek His bed Joseph Little One, Little One, Saviour and Child,Father and Mother, my Husband and Son;Born of the lily, the maid undefiled,Babe of my Love, the Beatified One.

From The Gray Brethren and Other Fragments in Prose and Verse by Fairless, Michael

Related Words

• holy
• sacred