reedify

English

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, Paradise Lost, Book XII, lines 347 to 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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “reedify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• dereify