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 blessedness and sovereign felicity; by the Greeks, εὐδαιμονία; and by the Latins, summum bonum, beatitudo, and beatitas.

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 blessed the poor in spirit, those that mourn, the meek, &c.