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edificant en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin aedificans, aedificantis, present participle of aedificare. See edify.

Meanings

1. building; constructing
   • And as his pen was often militant Nor less triumphant; so edificant It also was, like those blessed builders, who Stood on their guard, and stoutly builded too. 1655, William Dugard et al., Verses on Gataker:
   • Men are edificant or otherwise. Samuel Hoar is to all men's eyes conservative and constructive […] 1845, Ralph Waldo Emerson, journal entry:

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