Modify vs Edify - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between modify and edify

is that modify is to be or become modified while edify is to instruct or improve morally or intellectually.

is that modify is to make partial changes to while edify is to build, construct.

(en-verb)

To make partial changes to.

To be or become modified.

* adapt, alter, amend, revamp, rework

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* (archaic)

(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)