edify
pronunciation
How to pronounce edify in British English:
UK [ˈedɪfaɪ]
How to pronounce edify in American English:
US [ˈedɪfaɪ]
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- Verb:
- make understand
Word Origin
- edify
- edify: [14] As its close relative edifice [14] suggests, edify has to do literally with ‘building’. And in fact its underlying etymological sense is ‘building a hearth’. That was the original sense of Latin aedis. Gradually, though, it was extended, in a familiar metaphorical transition, from ‘hearth’ to ‘home’ and ‘dwelling’. Addition of a verbal element related to facere ‘make’ produced aedificāre ‘build a house’, or simply ‘build’.Its figurative application to ‘instruction’ or ‘enlightenment’ took place in Latin, and has no doubt been reinforced in English (which acquired the word from Old French edifier) by its accidental similarity to educate.
- edify (v.)
- mid-14c., "to build, construct," also, in figurative use, "to build up morally or in faith," from Old French edefiier (12c., Modern French édifier) "build; install; teach, instruct (morally)," from Latin aedificare "to build, construct," in Late Latin "improve spiritually, instruct" (see edifice). Related: Edified; edifying.
Example
- 1. Already but edify sentiment , but additional increase income .
- 2. Music is a furnace which can edify your temper .
- 3. They tried to edify the child with music .
- 4. Edify is decorous the meaning of appeal .
- 5. Already but edify sentiment , but additional increase income , working study neither by accident .