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ædify

ædify is the obsolete spelling of edify.

Meaning of edify

Verb

edify (third-person singular simple present edifies, present participle edifying, simple past and past participle edified)

  1. (archaic) To build, construct.
    • That Castle was most goodly edifyde, / And plaste for pleasure nigh that forrest syde […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.
    • frustrate the best endeavours in the edifying of the church1641, Francis Bacon, A Wise and Moderate Discourse, Concerning Church-Affaires

Forms of ædify

third-person singular presentædifies
present participleædifying
past participleædified
pastædified

Questions about ædify

What is ædify the obsolete spelling of?
Ædify is the obsolete spelling of edify.

Words near ædify in the dictionary

  1. ædicules
  2. ædification
  3. ædifice
  4. ædifices
  5. ædified
  6. ædify
  7. ædifying
  8. ædile
  9. ædiles
  10. ædileship
  11. ædileships

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ædify (page history and authors); edify (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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