Definizione monolingua

edify

edify (third-person singular simple present edifies, present participle edifying, simple past and past participle edified)

1. (now rare) To build, construct.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.i:

     That Castle was most goodly edifyde, / And plaste for pleasure nigh that forrest syde [...].

2. (transitive) To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.
   • 1813, The Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, Vol. VI, page 455

     That they ought to edify one another by maintaining and promoting the knowledge of truth.

Definizione dizionario edify

edificare

istruire

Altri significati:

(now rare) To build, construct.

(transitive) To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.