Word Meanings - DISEDIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To fail of edifying; to injure.

Related words: (words related to DISEDIFY)

• INJURE
  To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. To slander,
• EDIFYING
  Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation. -- Ed"i*fy`ing*ly, adv. -- Ed"i*fy`ing*ness, n.
• EDIFY
  fireplace (akin to Gr. idh to kindle, OHG. eit funeral pile, AS. ad, 1. To build; to construct. There was a holy chapel edified. Spenser. 2. To instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge; to teach. It does not appear probable
• INJURER
  One who injures or wrongs.
• DISEDIFY
  To fail of edifying; to injure.
• REEDIFY
  To edify anew; to build again after destruction. Milton.