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A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase.
Tried; practiced.
Exhausted; tired out.
Vanquished; conquered; baffled.
Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.
of Beat
One who, or that which, beats.
A person who beats up game for the hunters.
To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood.
Alt. of Beatifical
Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful.
To beatify.
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.
of Beatify
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.
of Beatify