Usually means: Instruct or improve someone morally.
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  1. edify: Merriam-Webster
  2. edify: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. edify: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. edify: Collins English Dictionary
  5. edify: Vocabulary.com
  6. edify: Wordnik
  7. edify: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. edify: Wiktionary
  9. edify: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. edify: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. edify: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. edify: Dictionary.com
  13. edify: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Edify: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. edify: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. edify: Rhymezone
  17. Edify: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. edify: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. edify: FreeDictionary.org
  20. edify: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. edify: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. edify: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. edify: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (edify)

▸ verb:  (now rare) To build, construct.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.

Similar:
enlighten, ædify, reedify, build up, reaedify, educate, upbuild, make up, erudiate, reedificate, more...

Opposite:
degrade, demean, humiliate

Types:
to instruct, to inform, to improve, to build up, to refine, to elevate, more...

Phrases:
opposite of edify, more...

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     white,     ivory,     cream, more...
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Similar:
enlighten, ædify, reedify, build up, reaedify, educate, upbuild, make up, erudiate, reedificate, more...

Opposite:
degrade, demean, humiliate

Types:
to instruct, to inform, to improve, to build up, to refine, to elevate, more...

Phrases:
opposite of edify, more...

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     white,     ivory,     cream, more...



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