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Edification


EDIFICA'TION, noun [Latin oedificatio. See Edify.]

1. A building up, in a moral and religious sense; instruction; improvement and progress of the mind, in knowledge, in morals, or in faith and holiness.

He that prophesieth, speaketh to men to edification 1 Corinthians 14:3.

2. Instruction; improvement of the mind in any species of useful knowledge.