ppl. a. [f. next + -ED.]
1. Made supremely happy or blest.
1575. Laneham, Lett. (1871), 32. They vaunted their play waz neuer so dignified, nor euer any players afore as beatified.
1690. Norris, Beatitudes (1694), I. 231. Angels and beatify’d Spirits.
1848. Mrs. Jameson, Sacr. & Leg. Art (1850), 315. They are beatified children, not winged angels.
1860. Pusey, Min. Proph., 562. The … glorious body of the beatified.
2. R. C. Ch. Declared to be in the enjoyment of heavenly bliss; see prec. 2.
1650. R. Stapylton, Strada’s Low-C. Warres, VII. 43. The already beatified Didacus.
a. 1837. Miss Knight, Autobiog., II. 312. The feast of a beatified saint is not observed by the church in general, but only by his own order.
1852. Mrs. Jameson, Leg. Madonna (1857), 92. The beatified members of these orders.
