Index of English words, starting with "be"

(1) - Beatification (n.) The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization.

(1) - Beatify (v. t.) To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of "the blessed" and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized.
(2) - Beatify (v. t.) To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.
(3) - Beatify (v. t.) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.

(1) - Beating (n.) The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.
(2) - Beating (n.) Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n.
(3) - Beating (n.) Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.
(4) - Beating (n.) The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.
(5) - Beating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beat

(1) - Beatitude (n.) Beatification.
(2) - Beatitude (n.) Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues.
(3) - Beatitude (n.) Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.