Beatificate - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: beatificateBeatific
Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment blissful...
Beatificate
To beatify...
Beatification
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 ldquothe blessedrdquo or has attained the second degree of sanctity usually a stage in the process of canonization...
Buddhism
The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindu sage Gautama Siddartha surnamed Buddha ldquothe awakened or enlightenedrdquo in the sixth century b c and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands Buddhas teaching is believed to have been atheistic yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality It presents release from existence a beatific enfranchisement Nirvacircna as the greatest good Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470000000...
Elysian
Pertaining or the abode of the blessed after death hence yielding the highest pleasures exceedingly delightful beatific...
VerbarNirvana
In the Buddhist system of religion the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of worldly existence as by annihilation or absorption into the divine See Buddhism...
Advocatus diaboli
Advocatus diaboli, the devil's advocate, the name popularly given to the promoter of the Faith (promotor fidei), an officer of the Sacred Congregation of Rites at Rome, whose duty is to prepare all possible arguments against the admission of any one to the posthumous honours of beatification and canonization, Enc. Brit....
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