(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) But I'm sure I could get someone to cover them up with the psychiatric equivalent of even bigger tattoos, perhaps in the shape of lotus flowers or a mosaic of beatific smiles.
(2) Part of the problem lies in our beatific tolerance of our own grandparents.
(3) Gustave's beatific smile and genteel demeanour work harmoniously with the purple hotel uniforms (Anderson does love a man in uniform).
(4) Pictures dance through my head the week before: of me, laughing chummily with my seat neighbour, Julianne Moore, as we watch Neil Patrick Harris’s opening number; of me, being caught on the world’s TV cameras applauding tearfully but also beatifically during the montage of people who died this year; of me, patting Eddie Redmayne’s arm with almost maternal pride as he gets up to collect his Oscar, and of him pretending to know who I am and thanking me profusely, because those are the kind of manners I imagine young chaps are taught at Eton.
(5) In contrast to the deprivation and destitution that can result from sanctioning, the fictional Zac and Sarah, with their beatific expressions beaming out from leaflets, are eerily chipper.
(6) They have energy but the beatification of Jeremy Corbyn is not enough to generate a coherent philosophy.
(7) Furthermore, while many Latin Americans and US Latinos are applauding the pope for promoting the beatification of Archbishop Óscar Romero – a champion of liberation theology who was killed in 1980 by a death squad in El Salvador – just as many are condemning him for canonizing 18 th Spanish missionary Junípero Serra , whose conversion of Native Americans in California was marred by violence and death.
(8) We learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are,” he said beatifically.
(9) Here though Miliband played a quiet blinder for much of the evening, adopting an oddly serene, beatifically long-suffering manner, like a sad, wise dying aunt offering a final benediction.
(10) And I get it: pictures of beatific celebrities breastfeeding their adorable children evoke ideas about “natural” motherhood and seek to end the shame that still exists around public breastfeeding.
(11) May took her beatification in her stride, modestly pointing out this was far from the first time she had been so elevated.
(12) The half hour of total fear that I experienced allowed me to spend the rest of the week in a state of beatific thankfulness for the wonders of life.
(13) A woman worthy of beatification and through whose devotion and duty Charles has been transformed into a semi-functioning human being.
(14) He now professes a hatred for modern war, but also scorns “beatific pacifism”, and refuses to express remorse for his own violent past.
(15) Then I remembered the impact Amour had on me – a tribute to the beatific grace of its actors and to their physical and moral courage, yet also to Haneke's unsparing quest for the truth about the way we live and die.
(16) When the passengers and a group of age-matched controls sat the test the first time, the computer flashed up a series of neutral words, such as "upholstery", "beatification" and "demographics" with common emotionally charged words interspersed, such as "disaster", "blood" and "horror".
(17) Earth Day, marked annually by Google with one of its famous doodles, has been given a beatific and celebratory treatment by the internet giant today.
(18) These days it would be stretching it to suggest that Eastwood's range is quite that broad, his face seemingly fixed in a beatific beam, the sort of blissful countenance that once had him pegged in a scurrilous - and erroneous - piece of showbiz gossip as Stan Laurel's love child.
(19) The response was a shrug, a beatific smile and: "Of course we can – and it will probably be better this time."
(20) Throughout proceedings, Benn smiled beatifically as if he were unaware he was the cause of the reshuffle logjam, occasionally leaning across his leader to share his jovial pensées with Chris Bryant and Rosie Winterton, just to politely remind Corbyn who is boss.
Canonization
Definition:
(n.) The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.
(n.) The state of being canonized or sainted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a sample of 170 patients the psychopathological contents of the AMP system and the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS) were compared by canonical correlations.
(2) Canonical discriminant function analysis of the relationship between these predictor variables on the first testing and whether participants (a) returned for retesting, (b) did not return because of apparent disinterest, or (c) did not return because of illness or death, revealed two significant canonical variates.
(3) Previous studies have documented transcription initiation sites and nuclease hypersensitive sites upstream of the epsilon-globin canonical cap site in K562 cells.
(4) The increased specificity of restriction endonucleases in the presence of spermidine is due to an enhancement of the cleavage rate at the canonical site and a slowing down of the cleavage rate at related sites.
(5) Canonical structures are not available for H3 due to its variability in length, sequence, and observed conformation in known antibody structures.
(6) A canonical promoter "TATA" box is located 30 base pairs upstream of the Cap site.
(7) The first canonical correlations were significant between risk factors and both sets of anthropometric variables (skinfolds, 0.36-0.46; circumferences, 0.39-0.54).
(8) Tyr1235 lies within the tyrosine kinase domain of p190MET, within a canonical tyrosine autophosphorylation site that shares homology with the corresponding region of the insulin, CSF-1 and platelet-derived growth factor receptors, and of p60src and p130gag-fps.
(9) On reversed sequences they vacillated between reproducing the events as modeled and "correcting" them to canonical order.
(10) Darkroom measures of tonic accommodation were determined using the infrared objective autorefractor, Canon Autoref R-1.
(11) Shadowtroopers and AT-AT walkers should keep the geeks happy At-AT walkers Photograph: YouTube Black-armoured stormtroopers have featured in numerous (largely non-canonical) Star Wars novels, games and comic books over the years, but never in the movies themselves.
(12) Resulting from the apparent use of a cryptic splice acceptor site in place of the canonical intron 5 site, this insertion is predicted to generate an in-frame insertion of five nonpolar amino acid residues within a highly polar region of the intracytoplasmic domain of the H-2K polypeptide.
(13) The findings were compared to those reported by Canon (1970) and were applied to a reassessment of the "visual capture" phenomenon.
(14) The output relation for the canonically simplest class of self-regulated incompletely coupled linear energy converters has been shown to be identical to the Hill force-velocity characteristic for muscle.
(15) The flanking regions of the gene contain the canonical elements typical for initiation and termination of transcription of yeast protein coding genes.
(16) It follows from the model that modifications of the first anticodon residue of the P-site tRNA can affect the stability of the A-site duplex, and that the translation of a DNA single chain analogue of mRNA should be accompanied by non-canonical base pairing at all three positions of the codon.
(17) The women remained defiant throughout the trial, issuing powerful closing statements that quickly entered the canon of Russia's dissident speeches.
(18) This work proposes that the approximately 200-residue binding segment of the canonical cytokine receptor is composed of two discrete folding domains that share a significant sequence and structural resemblance.
(19) Associations were examined by use of linear correlation, stepwise multiple regression, and canonical correlation analyses.
(20) We also found that a single OmpR-binding site can activate the ompC promoter, providing that the binding site is close and placed stereospecifically with respect to the canonical-35 and -10 regions.