Motivate vs Edify - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between motivate and edify

is that motivate is to animate; to propel; to cause to take action while edify is to instruct or improve morally or intellectually.

is that motivate is to provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage while edify is to build, construct.

(motivat)

To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage.

* The weekly staff meeting was meant to motivate employees.

To animate; to propel; to cause to take action

* He was motivated purely by self-interest.

* Steam motivated pumps are used in manufacturing.

* demotivate

* (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)