Crossword clues for edification
edification
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Edification \Ed`i*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. aedificatio: cf. F.
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The act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improvement; instruction.
The assured edification of his church.
--Bp. Hall.Out of these magazines I shall supply the town with what may tend to their edification.
--Addison. A building or edifice. [Obs.]
--Bullokar.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., in religious use, "a building up of the soul," from Old French edificacion "a building, construction; edification, good example," and directly from Latin aedificationem (nominative aedificatio) "construction, the process of building; a building, an edifice," in Late Latin "spiritual improvement," from past participle stem of aedificare "to build" (see edifice). Religious use is as translation of Greek oikodome in I Cor. xiv. Meaning "mental improvement" is 1650s. Literal sense of "building" is rare in English.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral, emotional, or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improvement; through encouragement and instruction. 2 (context archaic English) A building or edifice.
WordNet
n. uplifting enlightenment [syn: sophistication]
Usage examples of "edification".
It was his familiar flourish, an old story to Bibbs, and now jovially declaimed for the edification of Mary Vertrees.
Burke will always be read with delight and edification, because in the midst of discussions on the local and the accidental, he scatters apophthegms that take us into the regions of lasting wisdom.
Paul says in one place that his apostolical power is given him to edification, and not to destruction.
Eulenspiegels, or, finally, for the edification of Argemone as to her own history, past, present, or future, are questions which we must leave unanswered, till physicians have become a little more of metaphysicians, and have given up their present plan of ignoring for nine hundred and ninety-nine pages that most awful and significant custom of dreaming, and then in the thousandth page talking the boldest materialist twaddle about it.
There were the Burman Christians, who had listened so long, with edification and delight, to his preaching--there were the Karens, who looked to him as their guide, their earthly all--there were the scholars whom he had taught the way to heaven, and the Christian sisters, whose privilege it had been to wash, as it were, his feet.
Lady Maranta, for the edification of the masses, has sponsored a clockworks exhibition at City House.
Anne of Austria, had heard so many conflicting accounts of the possession of the Ursuline nuns, that she desired, for her own edification, to get to the bottom of the affair.
When she had digested without edification every item of news, she devoured the advertisements of the shops, then turned to the Agony Column, which she had saved up for a savoury.
Drawings from masterpieces are made and published for the edification of amateurs.
Owen, museums were designed primarily for the use and edification of the elite, and even then it was difficult to gain access.
But now, thanks to jubilant Journals and Homeric laughter over the Continent, the secret is out, in so far as the concurrents are all unmasked and exposed for the edification of the American public.
It was his familiar flourish, an old story to Bibbs, and now jovially declaimed for the edification of Mary Vertrees.
We together in like mind have decided that the evidence should be preserved at the Colledge for the edification and instruction of future generations whereof vigilance is important to thwart the work of the Devil in God’s New Land.
When the Romans and their comrades struggled back into Aptos, she received them like a ruling princess, to the edification of the few townsmen who braved the rain to watch.
If you wonder how I nourished myself during my princess's course of studies at Brewer College (or the Marcus Brewer Academic Institution for the Tutelage and Edification of Refined Young Gentlewomen, as it was then called) it is no less than I expected of you.