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使享福,行宣福礼
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Beatify \Be*at"i*fy\, 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. b['e]atifier. See {Bounty}.]
1. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or
as conferring happiness.
The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth.
--Barrow.
2. To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial
enjoyment. ``Beatified spirits.'' --Dryden.
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.
资料来源 : WordNet®
beatify
v 1: fill with sublime emotion; tickle pink (exhilarate is
obsolete in this usage); "The children were thrilled at
the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated
by his phenomenal success" [syn: {exhilarate}, {inebriate},
{thrill}, {exalt}]
2: make blessedly happy
3: declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of
achieving sainthood; "On Sunday, the martyr will be
beatified by the Vatican"
[also: {beatified}]