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reëdify

reëdify is the dated form of reedify.

Meaning of reedify

Verb

reedify (third-person singular simple present reedifies, present participle reedifying, simple past and past participle reedified)

  1. (transitive) To edify anew; to build again after destruction.
    • Return'd from Babylon by leave of kings / Their lords, whom God dispos'd, the houfe of God / They first re-edify ; and for a while / In mean estate live moderate ; till, grown / In wealth and multitude, factious they grow :1667, John Milton, “Book XII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

Forms of reëdify

third-person singular presentreëdifies
present participlereëdifying
past participlereëdified
pastreëdified

Questions about reëdify

What is reëdify the dated form of?
Reëdify is the dated form of reedify.

Words near reëdify in the dictionary

  1. reärm
  2. reëat
  3. reëaten
  4. reëating
  5. reëats
  6. reëdify
  7. reëdit
  8. reëducate
  9. reëducated
  10. reëducates
  11. reëducating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reëdify (page history and authors); reedify (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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