Edify vs Validate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between edify and validate

is that edify is to build, construct while validate is to render valid.

* (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)

(validat)

To render valid.

To check or prove the validity of; verify.

* disprove * invalidate