BEATIFY vs SAINT: NOUN
- N/A
- A Bordeaux wine, especially red, of medium quality.
- A North American shrub, Ascyrum Crux Andreæ.
- An image of a saint.
- One of the blessed dead: distinguished from the angels, who are superhuman beings.
- An angel.
- One who is pure and upright in heart and life; hence, in Scriptural and Christian usage, one who has been regenerated and sanctified by the Spirit of God; one of the redeemed: applied to them both in their earthly and in their heavenly state; also used of persons of other religions: as, a Buddhist saint.
- One who has been consecrated or set a part to the service of God: applied in the Old Testament to the Israelites as a people (Ps. cxxxii. 9; compare Num. xvi. 3), and in the New Testament to all members of the Christian churches (2 Cor. i. 1).
- An old game: same as cent, 4.
- An extremely virtuous person.
- A person who is venerated for holiness in a non-Christian religious tradition.
- A member of any of various Christian groups, especially a Latter-Day Saint.
- A person who has died and gone to heaven.
- A person officially recognized, especially by canonization, as being entitled to public veneration and capable of interceding for people on earth.
- Someone connected with any of the sports teams known as the Saints, as a fan, player, coach etc.
- A title given to a saint, often prefixed to the person's name.
- Model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
- A person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization
- Person of exceptional holiness
- Erysipelas.
- See under Distaff.
- A heatherlike plant (Dabœcia polifolia), named from an Irish saint.
- The fossil joints of crinoid stems.
- The plant love-in-a-mist. See under Love.
- A breed of large, handsome dogs celebrated for strength and sagacity, formerly bred chiefly at the Hospice of St. Bernard in Switzerland, but now common in Europe and America. There are two races, the smooth-haired and the rough-haired. See Illust. under Dog.
- A kind of knapweed (Centaurea solstitialis) flowering on St. Barnabas's Day, June 11th.
- The bulbous crowfoot, a favorite food of swine.
- The groundnut (Bunium flexuosum); -- so called because swine feed on it, and St. Anthony was once a swineherd.
- The erysipelas; -- popularly so called because it was supposed to have been cured by the intercession of Saint Anthony.
- A T-shaped cross. See Illust. 6, under Cross.
- A low North American shrub (Ascyrum Crux-Andreæ, the petals of which have the form of a Saint Andrew's cross.
- One canonized by the church.
- One of the blessed in heaven.
- A person sanctified; a holy or godly person; one eminent for piety and virtue; any true Christian, as being redeemed and consecrated to God.
- Tinea.
- The ergot of rye (Claviceps purpurea). See ergot for figure and description.
- One who is eminent for consecration, holiness, and piety in life and character; specifically, one who is generally or officially recognized as an example of holiness of life, and to whose name it is customary to prefix Saint (abbreviated St. or S.) as a title.
- Measles of the hog. See Trichina, trichinosis.
- Insanity.
- A red wine produced in the neighborhood of the Rhone, not often exported.
- A red wine grown near Poitiers.
- In later books, the European Hypericum quadrangulum.
- Perhaps transferred from the last, the American genns Ascyrum, especially A. stans.
- The snowberry, Symphoricarpos.
- A white wine produced in the department of Gironde, in the neighborhood of St. Emilion.
- The garfish, Belone belone or B. vulgaris.
BEATIFY vs SAINT: VERB
- Fill with sublime emotion; tickle pink (exhilarate is obsolete in this usage)
- To make blissful.
- To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a saint.
- Fill with sublime emotion
- Declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood
- Make blessedly happy
- Hold sacred
- In the Catholic church; declare (a dead person) to be a saint
BEATIFY vs SAINT: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To act or live as a saint.
BEATIFY vs SAINT: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To proclaim (a deceased person) to be one of the blessed and thus worthy of public religious veneration in a particular region or religious congregation.
- To exalt; glorify.
- 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.
- To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.
- To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
- To make a saint of; to enroll among the saints by an offical act, as of the pope; to canonize; to give the title or reputation of a saint to (some one).
- To regard or venerate as extremely virtuous.
- To act as a saint, or with a show of piety.
- To name, recognize, or venerate as a saint.
BEATIFY vs SAINT: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Declare (a dead person) to be blessed
- Hence To ascribe extraordinary virtue or excellence to; regard as saintly or exalted.
- Specifically In the Roman Catholic Church, to decree beatification.
- To pronounce or regard as happy, or as conferring happiness.
- To make supremely happy; bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment: as,“beatified spirits,”
- To salute as a saint.
- To act piously or with a show of piety; play the saint: sometimes with an indefinite it.
- Holy; sacred: only in attributive use, and now only before proper names, as Saint John, Saint Paul, Saint Augustine, or quasi-proper names, as Saint Saviour, Saint Sophia (Holy Wisdom), Saint Cross, Saint Sepulcher (in names of churches), where it is usually regarded as a noun appositive, a quasi-title. See II., 3.
- Declare (a dead person) to be a saint
- To number or enroll among saints officially; canonize.
- One having no equal
BEATIFY vs SAINT: RELATED WORDS
- Uncanonize, Holy man, Bishop of rome, Hiermartyr, Excommunicated, Canonised, Ordain, Concelebrate, Baptise, Sanctify, Venerate, Consecrate, Canonise, Saint, Canonize
- Sant, Holy, Saintly, Holy man, Holy person, Nonesuch, Nonsuch, Ideal, Enshrine, Nonpareil, Paragon, Apotheosis, Angel, Canonize, Beatify
BEATIFY vs SAINT: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Pontifician, Vicar of christ, Martyrize, Uncanonize, Holy man, Bishop of rome, Hiermartyr, Excommunicated, Canonised, Ordain, Baptise, Sanctify, Venerate, Consecrate, Saint
- Loup, Republic, Blessed, Heavenly, Sacred, Sant, Holy, Saintly, Holy man, Nonesuch, Ideal, Enshrine, Nonpareil, Paragon, Angel
BEATIFY vs SAINT: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- In order to beatify a candidate, it must be shown that the person is responsible for a posthumous miracle.
- Synonyms for consecrate include sanctify, hallow, bless, ordain, anoint, beatify, dedicate, exalt, sacralize and canonise.
- Saint Brogan was scribe to Saint Patrick during his meeting with the Fianna.
- Saint Nicholas was known as the patron saint of children.
- Saint Dwynwen, the Welsh patron saint of lovers.
- Gregory, Saint Augustine, and Saint Athanasius, pray for us.
- Saint Anthony is the Patron Saint for lost articles.
- Barbados, Belize, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, the Republic of Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
- Saint Rose was named after the first canonized saint of the New World, Saint Rose of Lima.
- USVI consists of the main islands of Saint Thomas, Saint Croix, and Saint John.
- Saint Andrew, Saint Peter, Saint Paul and James the Greater.
- All across the land of Fodlan, there were tales of Saint Seiros, Saint Indech, Saint Macuil, Saint Cichol and Saint Cethleann.
BEATIFY vs SAINT: QUESTIONS
- N/A
- What is Saint Anthony the Great the patron saint of?
- Why did Yves Saint Laurent change his name to Saint Laurent?
- Is Manoir Saint-Sauveur close to the center of Saint Sauveur des Monts?
- Is Saint Eulalia of Barcelona the same person as Saint James?
- Why did Saint Tulasidas choose Sri Hanuman as his patron saint?
- When did the Saint Bernards come to Saint Bernard Pass?
- Why Saint Eugene and Saint Joseph Church religious education program?
- Why is Saint Apollonia the patron saint of dentists?
- Is Saint Nicholas the real saint behind Santa Claus?
- What did Saint Peter and Saint Paul disagree about?