The act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improvement; instruction. (archaic) A building or edifice.
VerbInfinitive to edify Third person singular edifies Simple past edified Past participle edified Present participle edifying
to edify (third-person singular simple present edifies, present participle edifying, simple past and past participle edified)
(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 [...]. (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