What's the difference between beatify and neatify?

Beatify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
  • (v. t.) To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.
  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Civil war still a bitter memory as El Salvador prepares to beatify Romero Read more Instead, the federal public defender who has taken on Montano’s case, James E Todd, bombarded the court with 44 pieces of evidence – mostly declassified diplomatic cables from the time – all of which he slowly read aloud for several hours as the prosecutor openly fidgeted and rolled his eyes.
  • (2) She was beatified by John Paul II for their shared religious mania.
  • (3) It may also herald renewed Vatican interest in beatifying Pius XII – free from the pall of scandal and derision.
  • (4) The Salvadorean archbishop Óscar Romero was beatified on Saturday, the final step before sainthood, 35 years after he was shot dead at the altar by a rightwing death squad for denouncing the oppression of the poor by the military dictatorship.
  • (5) I shall be annulling everything on Monday.” Across the Tiber on Sunday, Pope Francis was celebrating a mass to close the synod and beatify Paul VI, the pope who presided over the later stages of the reforming second Vatican council.
  • (6) Orange juice (the drink not the band, though they would have beatified my 80s Peel show-heavy line-up) had been wilfully and cruelly siphoned into the toy dispensing orifice of a Minions claw grabber machine, short-circuiting an entire electrical system.

Neatify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make neat.

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