• IPA: /ˈɛdɪfaɪ/

edify

1. (now rare) To build, construct.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book III, canto I:

     That Castle was most goodly edifyde, / And plaste for pleasure nigh that forrest syde {{...}

2. (transitive) To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.

   • It does not appear probable that our dispute [about miracles] would either edify or enlighten the public.

   • 1813, The Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, Vol. VI, page 455

     That they ought to edify one another by maintaining and promoting the knowledge of truth.

• edification
• edificator
• edifice
• edifier
• edifying

• French: édifier
• German: bestärken, erbauen, edifizieren
• Russian: назидать