0 past simple and past participle of beatify
1 to announce formally in the Roman Catholic Church that someone who is dead has lived a holy life, usually as the first stage in making that person a saint
He beatifies his first wife while celebrating his own extra-marital affairs.
So the beatified infants might well look back on the episode and still find it meaningless.
The scientist who was beatified.
This was the largest number of persons beatified at once up to that time.
Among them 23 were beatified, of whom 20 were canonized, with an additional 3 in 2000.
The presence of this royal personage, beatified in 1693, proved to be of great benefit when she bequeathed her valuable estate to the convent.
Thus begins his crusade to get his daughter beatified.
He was condemned to death and guillotined for bringing communion to a dying man; he was beatified in 1934.
Of all these martyrs, seventy-nine were beatified in 1925.
