Definitions

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of edify.
  • adjective obsolete Furnished with buildings.

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  • adjective instructed and encouraged in moral, intellectual, and spiritual improvement

Etymologies

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From edify +‎ -ed.

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Examples

  • Others would hear him and be edified, which is one of the purposes of public praise.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2010

  • There are two things, then -- the being 'edified' and 'walking'; and I wish to say a word or two about each of them.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • Now that word 'edified' and the cognate one 'edification' have been enfeebled in signification so as to mean very much less than they did to Luke.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • I do not mean to trouble you with these, but it seems to me that we may perhaps best understand the writer's intention if we throw together the clauses which stand in the middle of this verse, and take them as being a description of the inward progress, being 'edified' and 'walking in the fear of the

    Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • They are two pieces of study of the color of marble architecture, the tints literally "edified," and laid edge to edge as simply on the paper as the stones are on the walls.

    Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 John Ruskin 1859

  • Now I am entertained and edified by amazing libraries of material instantaneously available to cater to whatever whim or interest.

    Glen Helfand: Full-Bodied Film Glen Helfand 2011

  • Now I am entertained and edified by amazing libraries of material instantaneously available to cater to whatever whim or interest.

    Glen Helfand: Full-Bodied Film Glen Helfand 2011

  • Now I am entertained and edified by amazing libraries of material instantaneously available to cater to whatever whim or interest.

    Glen Helfand: Full-Bodied Film Glen Helfand 2011

  • Indeed, I feel edified and elevated, if racked by low-level guilt, just watching the issues pile up on my bookshelf.

    Elevated Reading Club Ralph Gardner Jr. 2012

  • Now I am entertained and edified by amazing libraries of material instantaneously available to cater to whatever whim or interest.

    Glen Helfand: Full-Bodied Film Glen Helfand 2011

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  • "I know this world has plenty of bad people and bad vampires, but I don't believe the majority of the people in this country, or for that matter just here in Texas, would be edified by the sight of a screaming woman burning to death." -Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas

    December 11, 2010