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Beatify vs Beatificate - What's the difference?

beatify | beatificate |

As verbs the difference between beatify and beatificate

is that beatify is to make blissful while beatificate is to beatify.

beatify

English

(Beatification)

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To make blissful.
  • * Dryden
    • Beatified spirits.
  • To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
  • * Barrow
    • The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth.
  • (Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a saint.

    • Related terms

    * beatification * Blessed

    beatificate

    English

    Verb

    (beatificat)
  • (obsolete, religion) To beatify.
    • (Fuller)
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