beatify

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make blissful. transitive
  2. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness. transitive
    — [T]hat assertion of the wise man: 'Labor not for riches; wilt thou set thy heart on that which is not?' it, well applied, will pluck down the high places reared to this great idol of clay in men's hearts: will confute the common conceits and phrases which so beatify wealth; […]
  3. To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed. transitive

词形变化

beatifies present,singular,third-person beatifying participle,present beatified participle,past beatified past

词汇关系

相关词
beatification Blessed

词源

From French béatifier, from Medieval Latin beātifico (“I bless”).
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