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He possessed many himself, which he designed to present to the Republic; and, as the edifice was to be the great ornament of his Protectorship, he was very fastidious in his choice of the plan on which it would be built.

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  1. noun A building, especially one of imposing appearance or size.
  2. noun An elaborate conceptual structure: observations that provided the foundation for the edifice of evolutionary theory.

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  • The light streams through enormous painted windows, and at the extremity of the edifice is an altar surrounded by figures in different attitudes. —  RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LATE WILLIAM BECKFORD
  • In one corner of the edifice is a "holy well," the pilgrimages to which in the middle ages were, no doubt, a main source of the wealth of the establishment. —  Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, V2
  • The dome on the edifice is the loftiest in Paris—the height from the ground being 323 feet. —  Three Years in Europe
  • It occupied an area one thousand yards long and six hundred wide This edifice was the great treasure-house of Egypt. —  The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
  • Tribunes, stairs and wainscots that formed a strange contrast with the rest of the edifice were added. —  Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin aedificium, from aedificāre, to build : aedis, a building + -ficāre, -fy.

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  1. from French édifice = Provencal edifici = Spanish Portuguese Italian edificio, from Latin ædificium, a building of any kind, from ædificare, build: see edify.
 

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