Synonyms for edify

Grammar : Verb

Spell : ed-uh-fahy

Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛd ə faɪ

Définition of edify

Origin : mid-14c., "to build, construct," also, in figurative use, "to build up morally or in faith," from Old French edefiier "build, install, teach, instruct (morally)," from Latin aedificare "to build, construct," in Late Latin "improve spiritually, instruct" (see edifice). Related: Edified; edifying.

verb instruct

Example sentences :

But your mirth-makers, can you say they benefit the body or edify the soul?
Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon

Contains also remarks on terraces, which are expected to edify.
Extract from : « From a Terrace in Prague » by Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker

Its aim is not to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion.
Extract from : « American Men of Mind » by Burton E. Stevenson

What shocks one part will edify the rest, Nor with one system can they all be blest.
Extract from : « Essay on Man » by Alexander Pope

He had no idea even now how bad matters were, nor did she care to edify him.
Extract from : « A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike » by Charles King

Oh all you gallants, that hope to be saued by your cloathes, edify, edify.
Extract from : « The Fatal Dowry » by Philip Massinger

It can edify the readers with the history of remarkable piety and virtue.
Extract from : « Catholic World, Vol. XI, April 1870-September 1870 » by Various

To edify each other by conference, prayer, and disputations.
Extract from : « A Christian Directory (Part 4 of 4) » by Richard Baxter

Historic fidelity is to him a matter of indifference; he is only anxious to edify the reader.
Extract from : « The Apostles » by Ernest Renan

They may edify each other, they certainly have no power of edifying any one else.
Extract from : « The Religious Life of London » by J. Ewing Ritchie

Antonyms for edify

learn

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