beatific

English

Etymology

From Latin beātificus (“making happy or blessed”), from beātus (“blessed”) + -ficus (“making”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɪəˈtɪfɪk/

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Adjective

beatific (comparative more beatific, superlative most beatific)

1. Blessed, blissful, heavenly.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 178:

     Since the physical body is really a filter which shuts out the psychic realms, when one is out of the body one is out of the protection of the wall: whatever one thinks is immediately experienced - nightmare or beatific vision.

   • 2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time‎^[1]:

     The crowd is rapturous and Swift beatific as she gazes out at us, all high on the same drug. Her fans are singularly passionate, not just in the venue but also online, as they analyze clues, hints, and secret messages in everything from her choreography to her costumes—some deliberately planted, others not.

2. Having a benign appearance.

Derived terms

• beatifically
• beatificate

 

Related terms

• beatific vision
• beatify

Translations

having a benign appearance