beatific

From beatify, from Latin beatificare (“make blessed”), from beatus (“blessed”) + ficare (“make”), variant of facere.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɪəˈtɪfɪk/

beatific (comparative more beatific, superlative most beatific)

1. Blessed, blissful, heavenly.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 178:

     Since the physical body is really a filter which shuts out the psychic realms, when one is out of the body one is out of the protection of the wall: whatever one thinks is immediately experienced - nightmare or beatific vision.

2. Having a benign appearance.

• beatific vision
• beatify