edificantt (edifikant)

[=F. édifiant = Sp. Pg. It. edificante, And as his pen was often militant Nor le triumphant; so edificant It also was, like those ble ed builders, who Stood on their guard, and stoutly builded too. Dugard, On Gataker (1655), p. 75. edification (ed"i-fi-ka's hon), n . [ édifica tion = Pr. edificatio = Sp. edificacion = Pg. edi ficação = It. edificazione , ædificatio (n-), act of building, a building (structure), LL. instruction, ædificare , pp. ædificatus , build: see edify .] 1. The act or proce of building; construction. [Obsolete or archaic.] The castle or fortre e of Corfu is not onely of situation the strongest I haue seene, but also of edification . Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 111. edification Clergymen who are on the way of learning some valuable le ons in the art of popular Church edification . The Churchman , LIV. 469. 21. The thing built; a building; an edifice. Bullokar.-3. The act of edifying or instructing, or the state of being edified; improvement of the mind; enlightenment: most frequently used with reference to morals or religion. He that prop he sieth speaketh unto men to edification. 1 Cor. xiv. 3. Out of these magazines I shall supply the town with what may tend to their edification . Add is on, Guardian, "Tis edification to hear him converse; he profe es the noblest sentiments. Sheridan , School for Scandal, ii. 3. 1844 II. in trans. 1. To cause or tend to cause moral or intellectual improvement; make people wiser or better. The graver sort dislike all poetry, Which does not, as they call it, edify. Oldham, 2t. To be instructed or improved, especially morally; become wiser or better. I have not edified more, truly, by man. IMG:content-0225.png:[blocks in formation] Where these gifts of interpretation and eminent endow. ments of learning are found, there can be no reason of restraining them from an exercise so beneficially edificatory to the church of God. Bp. Hall, Cases of Conscience, x. edifice (ed'i-fis), n . [ édifice = Pr. edifici = Sp. Pg. It. edificio , ædificium , a building of any kind, ædificare , build: see edify .] A build- ing; a structure; an architectural fabric: ap- plied chiefly to large or fine buildings, public or private. Should I go to church, And see the holy edifice of stone, And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks? Shak., M. of V., i. 1. or instructive manner. He will discourse unto us edifyingly and feelingly of the substantial and comfortable doctrines of religion. Killing beck , Sermons, p. 324. edifying ne (ed'i-fi-ing-nes), n. The quality of being edifying. [Rare.] edile, ædile (e'dil), n. [ ædilis , ædes , ædis , a building, a temple: see edify .] In ancient Rome, a magistrate whose duty was originally the superintendence of public buildings and lands, out of which grew a large number of functions of administration and police. Among other duties, that of promoting the public games was incumbent on the ediles, and cost them large sums of money. Later, under the empire, their functions were distributed among special officials, and their importance edile ship, ædileship (ē'dil-ship), n. [ dwindled. The ædileship was an introduction to the highest offices. L. Schmitz , Hist. Rome, p. 236.