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To edify someone is to improve their mind or character by teaching them something worth knowing — to build them up, not just fill their head with facts. It is a formal, slightly churchy or verb. Teachers, preachers, and writers of older books use it; friends almost never do in ordinary chat. Though actually, it started as 'to build' in Latin, the way you build a house. English kept that picture for the mind. You will sometimes hear it with a raised , when the lesson is not as noble as the word pretends.
教化、啟迪（較正式、偏書面）
組成From Old French edifier, 'to build; to edify', from Latin aedificāre, 'to build'.
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- edificationthe noun: the improving, or the good it is meant to do
- edifyingthe adjective from this verb
- edificesame Latin 'build', kept for a large building
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
edifyverb/ˈɛdɪfaɪ/
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archaicTo build, construct.
- That Castle was most goodly edifyde, / And plaste for pleasure nigh that forrest syde […]
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To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.
- frustrate the best endeavours in the edifying of the church
- January 23, 1783, Edward Gibbon, letter to Dr. Priestley It does not appear probable that our dispute [about miracles] would either edify or enlighten the public.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。