different between edificatory vs edifice

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d?f??ke?t??i/

Adjective

edificatory (comparative more edificatory, superlative most edificatory)

1. Tending to edification.
   • 1649-1654, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience

     Where these gifts of interpretation and eminent endowments of learning are found, there can be no reason of restraining them from an exercise so beneficially edificatory to the church of God.

References

• edificatory in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• edificatory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Alternative forms

• ædifice (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English edifice, from Old French edifice, a classical borrowing of Latin aedificium (“building”), derived from aedific?re (“to build, establish”) (whence also English edify).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??d.?.f?s/

Noun

edifice (plural edifices)

1. A building; a structure; an architectural fabric, especially a large and spectacular one
2. An abstract structure; a school of thought.

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Translations

References

• edifice in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• edifice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.