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What (who) is Edify - definition
edify
v. a.
Upbuild (morally), nurture in religion, stimulate to spiritual growth, strengthen in spiritual life, beget spiritual improvement in, enlarge in Christian life.
edify
['?d?f??]
¦ verb (edifies, edifying, edified) formal instruct or improve morally or intellectually.
Derivatives
edification noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. edifier, from L. aedificare 'build', from aedis 'dwelling' + facere 'make' (cf. edifice).
Examples of use of Edify
1. What better tool to edify and yet that too is to be lost?
2. By Bassam Za‘za‘, Staff Reporter Dubai: A Muslim scholar has called on people to attend religious gatherings and lectures because it helps edify themselves and purify their souls.
3. The Prophet Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Him) enjoyed a perfect soul." He invited individuals to attend religious gatherings and edify their souls.
4. Seventy years later, "One–Storied America" continues to entertain and edify, reminding both Russians and Americans of virtues all but forgotten, vices since acquired and mutual misapprehensions we are loath to abandon.
5. Hammoudi does sometimes achieve a measure of detachment – and even an occasional flash of sly humor. (The fast–food restaurants in Medina, he decides, edify the faithful by offering them "an unadulterated version of hell.") But more often he wears his rather emotional heart on his sleeve.