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

For them, there is more than just basketball at play and their issue isn’t with Clark, but rather the hype machine that has beatified her.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2024

This was the first time an entire family has been beatified, a great honour and a step towards sainthood.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2023

It is the first time that an entire family has been beatified.

From Washington Times • Sep. 10, 2023

It was one of many works that de Kooning would present to a woman he beatified over the years as “Santa Emilia.”

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2022

Those hidden catacombs, where the holy dead rest, far under the streets of the city,—too far for traffickers in sacred bones to disturb them,—among these the imagination can rest, like those beatified ones, in peace.

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle

Related Words

• holy
• sacred