Edify



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 陶冶, 启发

Webster Collegiate

transitive verb (-fied; -fying)

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French edifier, from Late Latin & Latin; Late Latin aedificare to instruct or improve spiritually, from Latin, to erect a house, from aedes temple, house; akin to Old English ād funeral pyre, Latin aestas summer
• Date: 14th century
• 1. archaic
  • a. build
  • b. establish
• 2. to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge ; uplift; also enlighten, inform

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