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edify    音標拼音: ['ɛdəf,ɑɪ]
vt. 啟迪,熏陶,教誨

啟迪,熏陶,教誨

edify
v 1: make understand; "Can you enlighten me--I don't understand
this proposal" [synonym: {enlighten}, {edify}]

Edify \Ed"i*fy\, v. i.
To improve. [R.] --Swift.
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Edify \Ed"i*fy\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Edified}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Edifying}.] [F. ['e]difier, L. aedificare; aedes a building,
house, orig., a fireplace (akin to Gr. ? to burn, Skr. idh to
kindle, OHG. eit funeral pile, AS. [=a]d, OIr. aed fire)
facere to make. See {Fact}, {-fy}.]
1. To build; to construct. [Archaic]
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There was a holy chapel edified. --Spenser.
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2. To instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious
knowledge; to teach.
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It does not appear probable that our dispute [about
miracles] would either edify or enlighten the
public. --Gibbon.
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3. To teach or persuade. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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61 Moby Thesaurus words for "edify":
acculturate, advance, ameliorate, amend, better, boost,
bring forward, broaden the mind, catechize, civilize, demonstrate,
direct, educate, elevate, elucidate, emend, enhance, enlighten,
enrich, fatten, favor, forward, foster, give instruction,
give lessons in, go straight, ground, guide, illume, illumine,
improve, improve upon, inform, instruct, irradiate, lard, lift,
make an improvement, meliorate, mend, nurture, open the eyes,
promote, raise, reeducate, refine upon, reform, school, set right,
sharpen the wits, show, show how, socialize, straighten out, teach,
teach a lesson, teach the rudiments, transfigure, transform,
upgrade, uplift

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