edifice
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See also: édifice
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English edifice, from Old French edifice, a classical borrowing of Latin aedificium (“building”), derived from aedificāre (“to build, establish”) (whence also English edify).
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Noun[edit]
edifice (plural edifices)
- A building; a structure; an architectural fabric, especially a large and spectacular one.
- An abstract structure; a school of thought.
- 1904, Edward S. Holden, “Copernicus”, in Popular science monthly, volume 65, page 117:
- The real difficulty was moral, not intellectual. Was the whole edifice of Ptolemy to be destroyed?
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Translations[edit]
building
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school of thought
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References[edit]
- “edifice”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “edifice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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