Noah Webster
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.