Bedizen vs Beatify - What's the difference?
bedizen | beatify |
To ornament something in showy, tasteless, or gaudy finery.
To dirty; cover with dirt.
To make blissful.
* Dryden
To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
* Barrow
(Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a saint.
In transitive terms the difference between bedizen and beatify
is that bedizen is to ornament something in showy, tasteless, or gaudy finery while beatify is to pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.As a noun bedizen
is a person who spends most of their time in bed; a slugabed.bedizen
English
Etymology 1
From .Alternative forms
*Verb
Etymology 2
Blend of bed and citizen.beatify
English
(Beatification)Verb
(en-verb)- Beatified spirits.
- The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth.