beatified

English

Adjective

beatified (not comparable)

1. Blissful or supremely blessed.
   • 1695, John Dryden, “Preface of the Translator, with a Parallel, of Poetry and Painting”, in C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC, page ix:

     I [the painter Guido Reni] wiſh I had the wings of an Angel, to have aſcended into Paradiſe, and there to have beheld the Forms of thoſe beatify'd Spirits, from which I might have copy'd my Archangel: […]

2. (Roman Catholicism) Having been recognized and declared, by the church, that a deceased has entered heaven; having attained this step in the process of canonization.

Derived terms

• unbeatified

 

Translations

made blissful or supremely blessed

• Portuguese: beatificado (pt)

declared that a deceased has entered heaven

• Dutch: zalig (nl)

Verb

beatified

1. simple past and past participle of beatify