Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BE-AT'I-FY, v.t. [L. beatus, happy, from beo, to bless, and facio, to make.]

1. To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.
2. In the Romish church, to declare by a decree or public act, that a person is received into heaven, and is to be reverenced as blessed, though not canonized.