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Edify - What does it mean?

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edify

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To build, construct.
  • * , III.i:
  • That Castle was most goodly edifyde , / And plaste for pleasure nigh that forrest syde
  • To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.
  • * Gibbon
  • It does not appear probable that our dispute [about miracles] would either edify or enlighten the public.
  • * 1813 , The Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, Vol. VI , page 455
  • That they ought to edify one another by maintaining and promoting the knowledge of truth.
    (Francis Bacon)

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    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.