Edification
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Edification - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
EDIFICA'TION, n. [L. 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 Cor 14.
2. Instruction; improvement of the mind in any species of useful knowledge.
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