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edificant

edificant adjective: building; constructing.

Adjective

edificant (comparative more edificant, superlative most edificant)

  1. building; constructing
    • And as his pen was often militant
      Nor less triumphant; so edificant
      It also was, like those blessed builders, who
      Stood on their guard, and stoutly builded too.1655, William Dugard et al., Verses on Gataker
    • Men are edificant or otherwise. Samuel Hoar is to all men's eyes conservative and constructive […]1845, Ralph Waldo Emerson, journal entry

Forms of edificant

comparativemore edificant
superlativemost edificant

Origin of edificant

From Latin aedificans, aedificantis, present participle of aedificare. See edify.

Questions about edificant

What does edificant mean?
Edificant means building; constructing.
What part of speech is edificant?
Edificant is an adjective.

Words near edificant in the dictionary

  1. edicules
  2. EDID
  3. Edie
  4. EDIFACT
  5. edifenphos
  6. edificant
  7. edificate
  8. edification
  9. edifications
  10. edificator
  11. edificators

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