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cactus (iou) and Beatify (medicine)


cactus (iou)



cactus noun. , -uses. E17.
[Latin from Greek kaktos cardoon.]
1. = CARDOON. E17-E19.
2. A succulent plant of the family Cactaceae, with thick fleshy stems, usu. spiny and without leaves, and often brilliantly coloured flowers. M18.
Comb.: cactus dahlia a variety of dahlia with rolled-back flower-rays resembling a cactus flower.
cactaceous adjective of or pertaining to the family Cactaceae M19.

Beatify (medicine)


beatify


1. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness. "The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth." (Barrow)

2. To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment. "Beatified spirits."

3. 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 canonised.

Origin: L. Beatificare; beatus happy (fr. Beare to bless, akin to bonus good) + facere = to make: cf. F. Beatifier.

See: Bounty.

Source: Websters Dictionary