reedify

English

Alternative forms

• re-edify

Etymology

re- +‎ edify: compare French réédifier, Latin reaedificare.

Verb

reedify (third-person singular simple present reedifies, present participle reedifying, simple past and past participle reedified)

1. (transitive) To edify anew; to build again after destruction.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book XII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 347-352:

     Return'd from Babylon by leave of kings / Their lords, whom God dispos'd, the houfe of God / They first re-edify ; and for a while / In mean estate live moderate ; till, grown / In wealth and multitude, factious they grow :

Related terms

• edifice

References

• “reëdify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• dereify, redeify