Definition for ED-I-FI-CA'TION

ED-I-FI-CA'TION, n. [L. ædificatio. 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. xiv.
  2. Instruction; improvement of the mind in any species of useful knowledge. Addison.

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