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beatificate

beatificate verb: to beatify.

Verb

beatificate (third-person singular simple present beatificates, present participle beatificating, simple past and past participle beatificated)

  1. (obsolete) To beatify.
    • It seemed good therefore to his Holiness , not to canonise Garnet for a solemn saint , much less for a martyr , but only to beatificate him1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
    • The composition, not offering any historical fact, but an assemblage of beatificated personages, who lived at different periods, it is needless to give an account of it.1812, Charles Paul Landon, A Collection of Etchings […]

Forms of beatificate

third-person singular presentbeatificates
present participlebeatificating
past participlebeatificated
pastbeatificated

Origin of beatificate

From Latin beātificāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of beātificō (“to bless, to make happy”). Equivalent to beatific + -ate.

Questions about beatificate

What does beatificate mean?
Beatificate means to beatify.
What part of speech is beatificate?
Beatificate is a verb.
What is the past tense of beatificate?
The past tense of beatificate is beatificated.

Words near beatificate in the dictionary

  1. beatific
  2. beatific vision
  3. beatific visions
  4. beatifical
  5. beatifically
  6. beatificate
  7. beatificates
  8. beatification
  9. beatifications
  10. beatified
  11. beatifies

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