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.
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