edify
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edify
- /ˈɛdɪfaɪ/
Where it comes from
From Old French edifier (“to build, to edify”), from Latin aedificare (“build”).
verb edifies · edifying · edified · ædify
- To build, construct. That Castle was most goodly edifyde, / And plaste for pleasure nigh that forrest syde […]
- To instruct or improve morally or intellectually. frustrate the best endeavours in the edifying of the church
