BEATIFY Synonyms

• love intensely

• give a benediction to

• confer prosperity or happiness on

• make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate

• render holy by means of religious rites

• declare (a dead person) to be a saint

• treat as a sacred person

• praise, glorify, or honor

• bestow glory upon

• elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration

• cause to seem more splendid

• render holy by means of religious rites

• consider or render as ideal

• form ideals

• render holy by means of religious rites

• give religious sanction to, such as through an oath

• make pure or free from sin or guilt

• regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of

• fill with sublime emotion

• a chronic drinker

• fill with sublime emotion

• make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)

• become drunk or drink excessively

• the swift release of a store of affective force

• an almost pleasurable sensation of fright

• something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation

• cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input

• feel sudden intense sensation or emotion

• tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement

• fill with sublime emotion

• fill with sublime emotion