beatify means to make blissful. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.
beatify is pronounced /biˈætɪfaɪ/.
Why “beatify” is a great word
BEATIFY — [Verb] To declare a deceased person to be in a state of blessedness, a step in the Roman Catholic process of canonization, or, more generally, to make supremely happy. From French béatifier, from Medieval Latin beātificāre ("to make happy, to bless"), from Latin beatus ("blessed, happy") + -ficāre ("making"). First attested in English in the 1530s. Unlike "canonize," which is the final, celestial promotion to sainthood, or "exalt," a general, secular lifting up, to beatify is to confer a specific, intermediate benediction. It is the vellum decree that permits local veneration, the hushed joy in a pilgrim’s face before a new icon, and the solemn, bureaucratic alchemy by which a life of suffering is declared a source of bliss—a formal promise that even eternal joy must first pass through a committee.
Etymology
From French béatifier, from Medieval Latin beātifico (“I bless”).
verb
- To make blissful.
- To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.“[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; […]”
- To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.