beatify

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

verb fill with sublime emotion
verb make blessedly happy
verb declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood

From French béatifier, from Medieval Latin beātifico (“I bless”).

Her face, exquisite in its expression at all times, was now absolutely transformed, beatified. — The Crack of Doom, Robert Cromie
Come there not tones of Love and Faith, as from celestial harp-strings, like the Song of beatified souls? — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
And the friends of Madame de Saint-Dizier hawked about and everywhere repeated these terrible words with a contrite air, as if beatified and convinced! — The Wandering Jew — Complete, Eugène Sue

exhilarate, tickle pink, inebriate, thrill, exalt

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