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edit | edify |

As a noun edit

is an edict, type of legislative and/or judicial proclamation, originally emanating from a roman magistrate.

As a verb edify is

to build, construct.

edit

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A change to the text of a document.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To change a text, or a document.
    • I want to edit this sentence.
    Wikipedia is an interactive encyclopedia which allows anybody to edit and improve articles.
  • To be the editor of a publication.
    • He edits the Bee.

    Related terms

    * editable * edition * editor * editorial

    Synonyms

    * retouch, fix up, alter

    Anagrams

    * diet * tide * tied ----

    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)

    Related terms

    * edification * edificator * edifier * edifying

    Anagrams

    *