Edify vs Educe - What's the difference?
edify | educe |
To build, construct.
* , III.i:
To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.
* Gibbon
* 1813 , The Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, Vol. VI , page 455
To draw out or bring out; elicit or evoke.
To infer or deduce.
In lang=en terms the difference between edify and educe
is that edify is to instruct or improve morally or intellectually while educe is to infer or deduce.As verbs the difference between edify and educe
is that edify is to build, construct while educe is to draw out or bring out; elicit or evoke.edify
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* (archaic)Verb
(en-verb)- That Castle was most goodly edifyde , / And plaste for pleasure nigh that forrest syde
- It does not appear probable that our dispute [about miracles] would either edify or enlighten the public.
- That they ought to edify one another by maintaining and promoting the knowledge of truth.
- (Francis Bacon)
