reedify en · VERB
Etymology
From re- + edify: compare French réédifier, Latin reaedificare.
Meanings
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(transitive) To edify anew; to build again after destruction.
Return'd from Babylon by leave of kings / Their lords, whom God dispos'd, the houfe of God / They first re-edify ; and for a while / In mean estate live moderate ; till, grown / In wealth and multitude, factious they grow :
1667, John Milton, “Book XII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 347-352:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| reedifies | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| re-edify | alternative | lexicographic | |
| reedified | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| reedified | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| reëdify | alternative | lexicographic | |
| reedifying | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |