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beatificate en · VERB

Etymology

From Latin beātificāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of beātificō (“to bless, to make happy”). Equivalent to beatific + -ate.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) To beatify.
   • The composition, not offering any historical fact, but an assemblage of beatificated personages, who lived at different periods, it is needless to give an account of it. 1812, Charles Paul Landon, A Collection of Etchings […] :
   • It seemed good therefore to his Holiness , not to canonise Garnet for a solemn saint , much less for a martyr , but only to beatificate him 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

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