494 
beaupere 
tne state 
beat 
beat* (bet), - [Also h* *,,, < ME. **; , 
origin unknown, perhaps < 6a*l, ., or perhaps nouncmg happ beatitude the possession of the highest 
connected with bait, bate, steep : see&afco.] A blessedness. tive beatitude, the highest good. 
bundle of flax or hemp made up ready for steep- The end of a Christian, . . . the rest of a Christian, and v ea tti e (be-at'l), v. t. [E. dial. (Exmoor and 
the beatification of his spirit. Jer. Taylor, Sennons, xx. '^gC^JJIE ) an d U.S.; appar. < 6e-l + attle for 
beat 3 (bet), H. [Also bait, late; origin un- g . In the Bom, Cath. Ch., the act by which a addle.'] To addle the brain of ; make a fool of. 
known. Cf. b/rt-, make a fire. Peat is appar. a ecea8e d person is declared to be beatified, or [Prov. U. S. (Massachusetts).] 
a different word.] The rough sod of moorland, one of tne blessed, and therefore a proper sub- beau (bo), a. and n. [As an adj. long obsolete ; 
or the matted growth of fallow land, which is j eet of a cer tam degree or kind of public reli- ear i y ]no d. E. hew, < ME. beu, bieu, beau, < OF. 
~ii ^,,,1 .-. r> , ,. .. I nff mid tvni*nAd wllPtl tllR iRillCL __ : ____ i, -. .-, mi_s_ i ______ _ .,.,~i, .!., ........... .,<;<.. nf +Vo - "'t di Jf (tit 
See beat'*, v . if. E. I). 
sliced or pared 
is about to be plowed. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
beat 3 (bet), c. t. and i. [See beats, .] To 
slice off (the beat or rough sod) from unculti- 
vated or fallow ground with a beat-ax or breast- 
plow, in order to burn it, for the purpose at 
once of destroying it and of converting it into 
manure for the laud. JV. E. 1). [Prov. Bug.] 
beatas memoriae (be-a'te me-mo'ri-e). [L., 
gen. of beata mcmor'ia, blessed memory: see 
beatify and memory.] Of blessed memory : said 
of the dead. 
beat-ax (bet'aks), n. [E. dial., also 
bitlif; < beat 3 + ax 1 .] The ax or at 
whicli the beat is pared off in hand-beating. 
See beats, v . jy. E. V. [Prov. Eng.] 
beaten (be'tn), p. a. [< ME. beten, < AS. 
beaten, pp. of bedtan, beat: see beat 1 , v.] 1. 
gious honor. This is now an exclusive prerogative of 
pope but for several centuries it was also exercised by 
local' bishops or metropolitan!. It is usually the second 
step toward canonization, and cannot take place till fifty 
years after the death of the person to be beatified, except 
in the case of martyrs. The process is an elaborate one, 
consisting of thirteen or fourteen stages, and extending 
over many years, during which the claims of the reputed 
saint are carefully and strictly investigated. If the final 
result is favorable, the pope's decree is publicly read in 
the pontifical church, the image and relics of the newly 
beatified are incensed, etc. See canonization. 
Ximenes has always been venerated in Spain. Philip 
IV. endeavored to procure his beatification. 
6. Ticknar, Span. Lit., I. 424. 
30 bidax, beatify (be-at'i-fl), v. t. ; pret. and pp. beati- 
< beaft + axl.] The ax or^adz with fed, ppr. b'eatifying. [< F. beatifier, < LL. beati- 
. 
e make happy, bless, < beatificus, making 
happy, blessing, < L. beatus, happy, blessed (pp. 
o f& ea) - C) make happy, akin to beiius, bonus, good, 
j e ,, ej we ii) ( + facere, make.] 1. To make su- 
, . j ( , 
Wrought upon by beating; formed or affected p reme ly happy; bless with the completion of 
in any way by blows or^ percussion : as, beaten "atied sirits" Dn- 
work (which see, below). 
This work of the candlesticks was of beaten gold. 
Num. vm. 4. 
Specifically 2. Worn by beating or treading; 
much trodden ; hence, common from frequent 
use or repetition ; trite : as, to follow the beaten 
course of reasoning. 
A broad and beaten way. Milton, P. L., ii. 1026. 
Truth they profess'd, yet often left the true 
Anil beaten prospect, for the wild and new. 
Crabbe, Tales. 
3. Conquered; vanquished. 
celestial enjoyment : as, " beatified spirits, 
(feH. 2. To pronounce or regard as happy, or 
as conferring happiness. [Rare.] 
The common conceits and phrases which so beatify 
wealth. Barrow, Works (ed. 1686), III. 161. 
Specifically 3. In the Mom. Cath. Ch., to de- 
cree beatification. 
The right of beatifyinr,, that is, declaring a holy person 
a saint, and decreeing that due honour might be paid him, _ ( 
bel, fern, belle, < L. bellus, fair, beautiful, fine: 
see ben, bell 5 . The noun is mod., and follows 
the F. in pron. ; the ME. adj. if still existent 
would be pronounced as in its deriv. beauty, q. 
v.] I.t a. Good; fair: used especially in ad- 
dress: as, "beau sir," Chaucer, House of Fame, 
1. 643. See beausire, beaupere, etc. 
II. . ; pi. beaus or beaux (boz). 1. One who 
is very neat and particular about his dress, and 
fond of ornaments and jewelry ; a fop ; a dandy : 
now most often said of a man of middle age or 
older : as, he is an old beau. 
Besides thou art a bean : what's that, my child? 
A fop, well-dressed, extravagant, and wild. 
Drijden, tr. of Persius, Satires, iv. 42. 
He is represented on his tomb by the figure of a beau, 
dressed in a long periwig, and reposing himself upon vel- 
vet cushions under a canopy of state. 
Addimn, Thoughts in Westminster Abbey. 
2. A man who is suitor to or is attentive to a 
lady ; a lover ; a swain. [Now chiefly colloq. or 
rustic.] 
Her love was sought, I do aver, 
By twenty tteaux and more. 
Goldsmith, Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize. 
The rural beaux their best attire put on, 
To win their nymphs, as other nymphs are won. 
Crabbe, The Village. 
England and everywhere else by the bishops of the church. 
Rock, Church of our Fathers, III. i. 495. 
=Syn. 1. Dan,!,,, Exquisite, etc BM4MM*. 
eaU (bo), t'. t. [< beau, n.] To act the beau 
to . a ttend or escort (a lady). 
Hence 4. To ascribe extraordinary virtue or beauc6antt, See beausfant. 
I suppose everything is right, even to Wooler's being exee il ence to; regard as saintly or exalted. beauclerkt (bo'klerk or -klark), n. [Early mod. 
conqueror and I the beaten man. S. lytler. ^ herojne lg go beaM ji ed wjtn description, that she E. also beauclark, < ME. beauelerle, < OF. beau, 
4. Exhausted ; worn out. 5. Baffled, as by the loses ft)1 j,old upon sympathy. fine, + clerc, clerk, scholar.] A good scholar ; 
difficulty of a task, intellectual or physical. Whipple, Ess. and Rev., 1. 128. a i earne dman: known especially as a surname 
beater (be'ter), . 1. One who beats: as, a 
carpet-beater / a Anim-beater. 
Euen the wisest of your great beaters do as oft punishe 
nature as they do correcte faultes. 
Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 32. 
2. In hunting, one who rouses or beats up game. 
When the beaters came up we found that the bag con- 
sisted of five red-deer namely, one small stag and four 
hinds. J. Baker, Turkey, p. 369. 
3. That which beats or is used in beating. 
Specifically (<t) In basket-making, a heavy iron used for 
beating the work close, or compacting it. (6) In cotton 
manuf., a machine for cleaning and opening the cotton 
preparatory to carding. This is accomplished by beat- 
ing the cotton, as it is fed through rolls, by horizontal 
blades attached to an axle revolving with great rapid 
ity. (c) The jack of a knitting-machine. 
used in hat-making, (e) A tool for pad 
blast-hole, (f) A scutching-blade for breaking 
j. (o) In weaving, the lathe or batten of a loom : 
imeu because it drives the weft into the shed, and 
which they are made soft and pliable. (!>) The process of 
"marble block, (c) In bookbinding, the process of flatting 
out with a hammer the leaves of a book which have been 
badly pressed, or which have been buckled or twisted by 
by blows; a 
i e j ff(M 
beautiful 
taken as 
n. Same as baufrcy. Weale. 
(bo'i-de'al or bo'e-da-al'), n. [P., 
the ideal beautiful: le beau, the 
'., adj., ideal. Hence in E. often 
adj., qualifying ideal, n., 
i rifle-team has had its beating, but not a 
The American, VI. 245. 
moral 
free 
blemishes accompanying its actual existence; 
a model of excellence in the mind or fancy; 
ideal excellence. 
My ambition is to give them a beau-ideal of a welcome. 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xxxiv. 
The 
preparing rags 
bad beating. 
S?/, ?U&93SSRSA?ti? = 4. Regular pulsation or throbbing. 
The beatings of my heart. Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey. 
. K .u. B ,c, ,p, u - 5. In music, same as beat, 7 (a): \>u\ , in this 
nine, (ri) A mallet form more frequently applied to the beats ot 
packing powder in a the strings of a piano or the pipes of an organ. . 
br breaking flax or a *, ti~ M o f advancing in a zigzag beauish (bo ish), a. [< beau +*] L^ 6 
a beau; foppish; fine: as, "a beauish young 
spark," Byron, Beau and Bedlamite. 
Jeaujolais (bo-zho-la'), . [F. Jleaujolais, a 
former division of France, now chiefly com- 
prised in the department of Rhdne.] A kind 
of red wine made in the department of Rhone, 
in southeastern France. 
feT/W;< AS!' betUan, a parallel form of bathi- ^rTavTglw"o slightly founded faces, used in beau monde (bo m6nd). [F.: M* < L. M 
an, > E. bathe, q. v.] 1. To bathe ; foment. Raping the backs It books. '. "> mo ' i(1e - < L ' mund ' world ' See beau 
2. To heat (unseasoned wood) for the pur- beating-machine (be'ting-ma-shen'*), n. A ma- ant ^ 
pose of straightening (it). 
A tall young oake . . . 
Beath'd in nre for steele to be in sted. 
hemp, a n weavng, e ae or aen o a oom: h 
so named because it drives the weft into the shed, and line against the wind. 
makes the fabric more compact. beating-bracket (be'ting-brak'et), n. 
beater-press (be'ter-pres), n. A machine for batten of a loom. 
compacting materials for baling, by beating beating-engine (be'ting-en'jin), n. 1. A ma- 
them down by a weight, and also by direct and chine with rotating cutters for pre 
continued pressure. 
in paper-making. 2. Same as beating-machine. 
beath (beTH), t;. t. [Now only E. dial., < ME. beating-hammer (be'ting-ham''6r), n. Aham- 
The fashionable world ; people 
beatific (be-a-tif 'ik), a. 
tus, happy, "+ facere, make; cf. 
Blessing or making happy ; imparting bliss. 
The greatness and strangeness of the beatific vision. 
South. 
2. Blessed; blissful; exaltedly happy. 
He arrived in the most beatific frame of mind. 
Three in Norway, p. 176. 
Beatific vision, in theol., the direct vision of God, sup- 
posed to constitute the essential bliss of saints and angels 
in heaven. 
beatifical (be-a-tif 'i-kal), a. Same as beatific. 
[Rare.] 
beatifically (be-a-tif 'i-kal-i), adv. In a beatific 
manner. 
beatificatet (be-a-tif 'i-kat), r. *. To beatify. 
LI. ueaiitutio, \ ueatd*, naupv, uicaoeu . ouo w- rJaltimore, Mary an . 
atify.] I. Supreme blessedness; felicity of beaumont-root (bo mont-rot), n. 
the highest kind; consummate bliss; hence, in bowman s-root. ^ ^^ 
a less restricted sense, any extreme pleasure or Beaune (bon), . L* -J 
satisfaction. 
Same as 
A red wine of Bur- 
gundy. The name is given to wines produced in a large 
district around the city of Beaune, and varying greatly in 
True beatitude groweth not on earth. nualitv 
Sir T. Browne, Christ. Mor., iii. 11. ^ ^ beaupeert, . [Early mod. E., also 
About him all the sanctities of heaven beu;>eer etc (in the sense of 'companion,' 
Stood thick as stars, and from his sight received WWW", B " V" . , _*..'_ -^tri 
Beatitude past utterance. Milton, P. L., iii. 62. sometimes spelled beauphere, by conlusi 
Thousands of the Jews find a peculiar beatitude in hav- phere, an erroneous spelling of ME. fere a com 
ing themselves interred on the opposite slope of the Mount panion : see fere), < ME. bewpere, beaupei e, ben - 
of Olives. B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 75. py r ^ e t C-) < (J) OF. beau pere, ' good father.' a 
2. One of the eight ascriptions of blessed- polite form of pere, father (mod. F. beau-pere, 
ness to those who possess particular virtues, father-in-law, or stepfather). < beau, fair, good, 
beatification (bf-at"i-fi-ka'shon), M. [=F'.be~- pronounced by Christ in the Sermon on the + pere, F. pere, < L. pater = E. father; (2) < 
atification, < LL. beatificare: "see beatify.] 1. Mount, Mat. v. 3-11: so named from the word -beau, fair, good, + per, peer (mod. r . pair), 
