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)
- (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
- “beatificate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
beatificate
- inflection of beatificare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
beatificate f pl
- feminine plural of beatificato
Latin
Verb
beātificāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of beātificō
Spanish
Verb
beatificate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of beatificar combined with te