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Definition: Beatify |
BeatifyVerb1. Declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood; "On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "beatify" was first used: 1535. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pain | Bless, beatify; satisfy; gratify, desire slake, satiate, quench; indulge, humor, flatter, tickle; tickle the palate; (savory); regale, refresh; enliven; treat; amuse; take one's fancy, tickle one's fancy, hit one's fancy; meet one's wishes; win the heart, gladden the heart, rejoice the heart,bless, beatify; satisfy; gratify, desire slake, satiate, quench; indulge, humor, flatter, tickle; tickle the palate; (savory); regale, refresh; enliven; treat; amuse; take one's fancy, tickle one's fancy, hit one's fancy; meet one's wishes; win the heart, gladden the heart, rejoice the heart, warm the cockles of the heart; do one's heart good. |
Piety | Convert, edify, sanctify, keep holy, beatify, regenerate, inspire, consecrate, enshrine. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Beatify |
| English words defined with "beatify": Beatificate, Beatifying. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "beatify": Beatificate. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
beatify | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "beatify"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lumturoj, lumnoj. (various references) | |
Arabic | طوب بالسعادة الأبدية, أسعد إلى أبعد الحدود. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обявявам покойник за блажен, правя блажен. (various references) | |
Czech | blahořeèit. (various references) | |
Finnish | autuuttaa (make blessed, save). (various references) | |
French | béatifier. (various references) | |
German | seligsprechen. (various references) | |
Greek | μακαρίζω. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"כריז כק"וש. (various references) | |
Hungarian | boldoggá tesz (make glad, make happy, to beatify, to felicitate), boldoggá avat (to beatify). (various references) | |
Italian | beatificare. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eatifybay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | beatificar (canonize). (various references) | |
Romanian | beatifica, sfinţi (anoint, bless, consecrate, dedicate, hallow, lay, pap, sanctify). (various references) | |
Russian | благословлять (bless), причислять к лику блаженных, давать блаженство. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | proglasiti blaženim. (various references) | |
Spanish | beatificar. (various references) | |
Swedish | saligförklara, göra lycksalig. (various references) | |
Turkish | aziz ilan etmek, şad etmek, çok sevindirmek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | благословляти (bless, hallow), давати блаженство. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | beatificare, beatus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "beatify": beatifying. (additional references) | |
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"Beatify" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beastify, beatifie, betif. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "beatify" (pronounced 'Be*at"i*fy'): Acidify, Adsignify, Aerify, Alacrify, Angelify, Anglicify, Anglify, Arefy, Argufy, Balmify, Basify, Bonify, Brutify, Candify, Capacify, Carnify, Celestify, Certify, Chondrify, Chylify, Chymify, Classify, Cockneyfy, Codify, Consignify, Corporify, Correctify, Countrify, Crucify, Cuffy, Daintify, Damnify, Dandify, Decalcify, Deify, Devitrify, Finify, Fishify, Foolify, Foresignify, Frenchify, Fumify, Glorify, gratify, horrify, indemnify, interstratify, jellify, jiffy, lenify. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-i-t-y" | |
-2 letters: befit. | |
-3 letters: abet, abye, bait, bate, beat, beta, bite, byte, fate, feat, feta, fiat, yeti. | |
-4 letters: aby, aft, ait, ate, aye, bat, bay, bet, bey, bit, bye, eat, eft, eta, fat, fay, fet, fey, fib, fie, fit, tab, tae, tea, tie, tye, yea, yet. | |
-5 letters: ab, ae, ai, at, ay, ba, be, bi, by. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-f-i-t-y" | |
+1 letter: beautify. | |
+2 letters: biosafety. | |
+3 letters: beatifying. | |
+4 letters: beautifully, beautifying, certifiably, feasibility, irrefutably. | |
+5 letters: beatifically, forgeability, identifiably, ineffability. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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