Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Beatific   Listen
Beatific

adjective
1.
Experiencing or bestowing celestial joy.
2.
Marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint.  Synonyms: angelic, angelical, sainted, saintlike, saintly.  "A beatific smile" , "A saintly concern for his fellow men" , "My sainted mother"





WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Beatific" Quotes from Famous Books



... if it was not concerning the Development matter that Thomas was writing, what was it? The beatific smile which had followed the sigh of relief faded from his face and ...
— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln
... for this very hour to come, now perversely wished to sleep. A belated but beatific drowsiness seized him. He was only half-conscious of the noise that attended the ...
— Viola Gwyn • George Barr McCutcheon
... enjoyment. A long tongue of flame had crept under the cage, completely singing every hair from the cat's body. The felicitous adder was slowly burning in two and busily engaged in impregnating his organic system with his own venom. The joyful rat had lost his tail by a falling bar of iron; and the beatific rabbit, perforated by a red-hot nail, looked as if nothing would be more grateful than a cool corner in some Esquimaux farm-yard. The members of the delectated convocation were all huddled together in the bottom of their cage, which suddenly gave ...
— A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career. Life of Hon. Phineas T. • Joel Benton
... as he was in Justin's arms. He half-raised his arms, holding out his hands toward the foot of the bed. His eyes dilated; the expression of his livid face grew first surprised, then joyous—beatific. "Antoinette!" he cried in ...
— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini
... interests, a flying glimpse of eternity. So an infant living in his mystical limbo, without trailing in a literal sense any clouds of glory from elsewhere, might well repeat on a diminutive scale the beatific vision, insomuch as the only function of which he was conscious at all might be perfectly fulfilled by him and felt in its ideal import. Sucking and blinking are ridiculous processes, perhaps, but they ...
— The Life of Reason • George Santayana


More quotes...


Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com