BEATIFY, b[=e]-at'i-f[=i], _v.t._ to make blessed or happy: to declare to
be in the enjoyment of eternal happiness in heaven.--_adjs._ BEATIF'IC,
-AL, making supremely happy.--_adv._ BEATIF'ICALLY.--_n._
BEATIFIC[=A]'TION, act of beatifying: (_R.C. Church_) a declaration by the
Pope that a person is blessed in heaven, authorising a certain definite
form of public reverence payable to him--the first step to
canonisation.--BEATIFIC VISION, a glimpse of the glory of heaven, esp. that
which first bursts upon the disembodied soul. [L. _beatus_, blessed, and
_fac[)e]re_, to make.]
BEATITUDE, b[=e]-at'i-t[=u]d, _n._ heavenly happiness, or happiness of the
highest kind: (_pl._) sayings of Christ in Matt. v., declaring the
possessors of certain virtues to be blessed. [L. _beatitudo_--_beatus_,
blessed.]
BEAU, b[=o], _n._ a man attentive to dress or fashion: a fop or dandy: a
lover:--_pl._ BEAUX (b[=o]z):--_fem._ BELLE.--_n._ BEAU'-ID[=E]'AL, ideal
excellence, or an imaginary standard of perfection: the person in which
such is realised.--_adj._ BEAU'ISH.--_ns._ BEAU'-MONDE, the gay or
fashionable world; _Beaupere'_ (_Spens._), a term of courtesy for 'father,'
esp. of ecclesiastical persons: a companion. [Fr. _beau_, _bel_--L.
_bellus_, fine, gay, as if for a _benulus_, dim. of _benus_ = _bonus_,
good.]
BEAUJOLAIS, b[=o]-zh[=o]-l[=a], _n._ a kind of red wine produced in
South-eastern France. [From _Beaujolais_, a subdivision of the old province
of Lyonnais.]