edify

• And continue to build up (edify) our coutry, our people, by talking about what's right about America. —  third world county
• At the same time there is gain in one respect--the poets no longer conceal their own personality behind their work: they instruct, edify, moralise, express their real or simulated passions in their own persons; if their art is mechanical, yet through it we make some acquaintance with the men and manners of the age Footnote 1: Puy_, mountain, eminence, signifying the elevated seat of the judges of the artistic competition The chief exponent of the new art of poetry was GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
• If a poet in sympathy with the philosophers desired to edify, he described the phenomena of nature as Saint-Lambert (1716-1803) did in his Saisons_--"the only work of our century," Voltaire assured the author, "which will reach posterity." —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
• We should permit few days to pass without reading in Hebrew one of those sacred poems; the more they are read and studied, the more will they delight, edify, and instruct 4] Twice reprinted, in Leicester, and in London (1892) in facsimile 5] Wealth of Nations, Book IV., Chap. —  Life of William Carey
• The aim which should ever burn clear before us, and preside over even our smallest actions, is that which lies in this misused old word, 'edify' yourselves The first thing about a structure is the foundation. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.

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