edified

Adjective

edified (comparative more edified, superlative most edified)

1. Furnished with buildings.
   • Long they thus travelled in friendly wise, / Through countreyes waste, and eke well edifyde [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
   • In Calvià the demoasidetion of 16 hotels built in the early 1970s and the new planning strategies have given visibiasidety to a possible reuse of edified areas often showing relevant impacts, in Rimini the project tried to put into action a process of divulgation on sustainable tourism themes.2007, Peter M. Burns, Marina Novelli, Tourism and Politics
2. Built or constructed.
   • Based on the definition put forward and the fact that the elements surrounding the square should be clearly visible, we can state that it is not the edified elements which delimit the square, but rather, that it is the square which bestows on them a tangential sense of boundary and conformation;2016, Vitor Abrantes, Bárbara Rangel, José Manuel Amorim Faria, The Pre-Fabrication of Building Facades, page 37
   • Summing up, the designed buildings' generic ontology intends to establish a generalist organization for edified structures, based on the CityGML standard.2016, Telmo Adão, Luís Magalhães, Emanuel Peres, Ontology-based Procedural Modelling of Traversable Buildings Composed by Arbitrary Shapes, page 43
3. Morally or intellectually improved.
   • Will you allow then at once, that their feeling, and their notion of being more edified, will justify their heresies and their schism?1832, John Warton, Death-bed Scenes and Pastoral Conversations, page 448
   • The oftener you are at them, the better you will like them, and the more edified you will be by them;1845, William Beveridge, The Theological Works, volume 6, page 396