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Bot.: Enanthe Phellandrium . ( Dr. J. Hill (1769); edict.) Pertaining or relating to an edict. Britten & Holland .) "And as his pen was often militant, Nor le triumphant; so edificant It also was." Dugard: Verses on Gataker (1655), p. 73. ed-i-fi-ca-tion, *æd-i-fi-ca-tion, *ed-1-fi-ca- cion, *ed-i-fi-ca-cioun, s . [Lat. ædificatio , from ædifico to build; Fr. édif i cation ; Sp. edificacion; Ital. edificazione .] IMG:content-0768.png:[blocks in formation] Corfu, which is not onely of situation the strongest I have seene, but also of ædif i cation."-Hackluyt: Voyages, vol. ii. 2. That which is built; a building, an edifice. ( Bullokar .) II. Fig .: A building up in a moral or religious sense; a rearing up in knowledge; mental improve- 1. The act of giving an edge or sharpne to. 2. That which forms the border or edge of any ment or progre ; instruction. "The end he has in view, the edification of others."- ed-i-fi-ca-tõr-ý, a. ěd-i-fiçe, s . [Fr., from Lat. ædificium =a build- ing; ædifico =to build; Sp. & Port. edificio ; Ital. edi- fizio .] A building, a structure, a fabric; especially applied to large, elegant or elaborate structures. "Right toward the sacred edifice his steps Had been directed." nate the mode of action: the fabric is itself a species of epithet, it designates the object as something contrived by the power of art or by design. The edifices dedicated to the service of religion have in all ages been held sacred: it is the busine of the of the universe, the mind becomes bewildered with contemplating the infinite power of its Divine author. When employed in the abstract sense of actions, structure is limited to objects of magnitude, is requisite; hence we may speak of the structure of ve els, and the fabric of cloth, iron ware, and the like." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) ed-i-fi-cial (cial as shal), a . [Low Lat. ædi- ficialis , from Lat. ædificium.] Pertaining to an edifice or construction; structural. ficial attraction, have a certain air of appropriate hospi. tality and provincial dignity." -Hist. of Rivers of Great Britain (1794), i. 232. ed-1-fied, *ed-i-fide, *ed-i-fyde, pa . par . or a . [EDIFY.] IMG:content-0769.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0770.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0771.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0772.png:[blocks in formation]