a. [f. as prec. + -AL 1.] = prec.

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1610.  G. Fletcher, Christ’s Vict., in Farr, S. P. (1848), 73. In midst of this citie celestiall, Lightned th’ Idea Beatificall.

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1681.  Glanvill, Sadducismus, II. (1726), 453. To talk trivially of beatifical enjoyments.

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  b.  1605.  Bell, Motives Rom. Faith, 95. That so the faithfull may … be made partakers of the vision beatificall.

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1702.  Bruyn’s Voy. Levant, xii. 55. A Beatifical Vision of God.

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  c.  absol. quasi-sb.

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a. 1711.  Ken, Hymnotheo, Poet. Wks. 1721, III. 320. In God all Beatificals conspire.

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