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Beatus, meaning blessed in Medieval Latin, may mean:
- One who has been beatified, the stage before being declared a saint
- The Commentary on the Apocalypse, (i.e. Book of Revelation), especially in illuminated manuscript form, written by Saint Beatus of Liébana
- Beatus initial, the B of "Beatus vir..." ("Blessed is the man..."), the start of Psalm 1 in Latin, usually given the most elaborate decoration in an illuminated psalter
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Beatus vir (from Psalm 112) is the title of many compositions including :
- ''Beatus vir (1641) from Monteverdi's Selva morale e spirituale
- ''Beatus vir, ZWV 75, 76, et 77, by Jan Dismas Zelenka
- ''Beatus vir, RV597 et RV598, by Vivaldi
- ''Beatus vir, MH 410, MH 398, by Michael Haydn
- Beatus Vir (Górecki), opus 38 (1979), by Górecki
- ''Beatus vir, Seibel 26, 27, and 28 by Johann David Heinichen
- "Beatus", a song by Serj Tankian from Imperfect Harmonies
Usage examples of "beatus".
The sister then intoned the Beati immaculati which preceded the reading and they began to eat.
A sister was intoning the Beati immaculati prior to the daily reading.
It is not with him pereant illi, but beati sunt illi qui pro nobis nostra dixerunt,-Blessed are those who have said our good things for us.
Quomodo legimus factum precibus beati patris Gregorii Neocaesareae Ponti Antistitis, uiri mentis et virtutibus eximii, ut mons in terra tantum loco cederet, quantum incolae ciuitatis opus habebant.
She came to Beatus from the planet of Cromartie, which was her sixty-first planet.
But she had never heard anything of Beatus to make her think it was the planet she sought where she would not be bent, and she had had no plans to visit the place.
They were guaranteed to operate only on Beatus or in the hands of Beatans, but Beatans did not travel well through the transitions of hyperspace and no one else would willingly live on Beatus.
It is only by virtue of their machines that men live on Beatus at all.
She did not inform Lord and Lady Brain that she preferred the blue fog of Beatus to the pleasures of their hospitality.
No, she chose instead to tell them that she traveled to Beatus on the chance that it might supply her with a machine, a remote planetary analyzer, that she needed for her purpose.
She had no better place left than Beatus to search for a planetary analyzer.
When she was given leave to land on Beatus, and was brought down through the murk to a safe landing on a planetary grid, she discovered that the worst that Cromartie had to say of the place was understatement.
But Lady Sunshine had seen where the Munglies live, and Beatus was worse.
The machines of Beatus pounded away eternally to keep the men of Beatus alive in their holes and warrens.
The cold blue fog of Beatus penetrated even through the protective equipment that she wore.