Navigation, the operation of making a progress at sea against the direction of the wind, in a zig-zag line or traverse, like that in which we ascend a steep hill. See Tacking.

Beatitude imports the supreme good, or the highest degree of happiness human nature is susceptible of; or the most perfect state of a rational being, wherein the soul has attained to the utmost excellency and dignity it is framed for. In which sense, it amounts to the same with what we otherwise call blestness and sovereign felicity; by the Greeks, συναίσθησις; and by the Latins, summum bonum, beatitudo, and beatitatis.

Beatitude, among divines, denotes the beatific vision, or the fruition of God in a future life to all eternity.

Beatitude is also used in speaking of the theses contained in Christ's sermon on the mount, whereby he pronounces blest the poor in spirit, those that mourn, the meek, &c.