Noah Webster
Beatify
BEAT'IFY, verb transitive [Latin 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.