| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Tending to edification.[Websters]
2. Being instructive, educational, educative, informative or didactic. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Virtually never used base adjective of the rarely used adverb edificatorily.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (edificatorily) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective edificatory.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "EDIFICATORY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EDIFICATORY
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Tending to edification.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Adjective] Tending to edification. Where these gifts of interpretation and eminent endowments of learning are found, there can be no reason of restraining them from an exercise so beneficially edificatory to the church of God. — Joseph Hall, Cases of Conscience, x. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
