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edify | education |

As a verb edify

is to build, construct.

As a noun education is

education.

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)

    Anagrams

    *

    education

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (generally jocular) educashun, educamation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) The process or art of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
  • (countable) Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, either formally or informally.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}

    Derived terms

    * all-round education * distance education * educational * educationist * general education * liberal education * mass education * primary education * secondary education * tertiary education * higher education * further education * edjamacation

    See also

    * training * schooling