beatify

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. béatifier. See Bounty. ] 1. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment. “Beatified spirits.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]