1. (v. t.) To make or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness\.

2. (v. t.) To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.

3. (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.

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