beatificate

English

Etymology

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

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To beatify.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; [], London: [] Iohn Williams [], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
      It seemed good therefore to his Holiness , not to canonise Garnet for a solemn saint , much less for a martyr , but only to beatificate him
    • 1812, Charles Paul Landon, A Collection of Etchings [] :
      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.

References

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

beatificate

  1. inflection of beatificare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

beatificate f pl

  1. feminine plural of beatificato

Latin

Verb

beātificāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of beātificō

Spanish

Verb

beatificate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of beatificar combined with te