Word Meanings - EDIFYING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation. -- Ed"i*fy`ing*ly, adv. -- Ed"i*fy`ing*ness, n.

Related words: (words related to EDIFYING)

• IMPROVISATRICE
  See IMPROVVISATRICE
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• IMPROVER
  One who, or that which, improves.
• IMPROVABILITY
  The state or quality of being improvable; improvableness.
• IMPROVIDENTLY
  In a improvident manner. "Improvidently rash." Drayton.
• IMPROVISION
  Improvidence. Sir T. Browne.
• IMPROVIDED
  Unforeseen; unexpected; not provided against; unprepared. All improvided for dread of death. E. Hall.
• IMPROVISER
  One who improvises.
• IMPROVISATIZE
  See IMPROVISATE
• IMPROVISATOR
  An improviser, or improvvisatore.
• IMPROVABLE
  1. Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities. Man is accommodated with moral principles, improvable by the exercise of his faculties. Sir
• IMPROVVISATRICE
  A female improvvisatore.
• IMPROVISATE
  Unpremeditated; impromptu; extempore.
• 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
• IMPROVE
  1. To disprove or make void; to refute. Neither can any of them make so strong a reason which another can not improve. Tyndale. 2. To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence. Chapman. When he rehearsed
• CONVERSATIONIST
  One who converses much, or who excels in conversation. Byron.
• INSTRUCTION
  1. The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information. 2. That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted; as: Precept; information; teachings. Direction; order; command.
• CONVERSATION
  conversacion, F. conversation, fr. L. conversatio frequent abode in a 1. General course of conduct; behavior. Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. Philip. i. 27. 2. Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close
• IMPROVIDENTIALLY
  Improvidently.
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• UNIMPROVED
  1. Not improved; not made better or wiser; not advanced in knowledge, manners, or excellence. 2. Not used; not employed; especially, not used or employed for a valuable purpose; as, unimproved opportunities; unimproved blessings. Cowper. 3. Not
• MISINSTRUCT
  To instruct amiss.
• DISEDIFY
  To fail of edifying; to injure.
• DISIMPROVE
  To make worse; -- the opposite of improve. Jer. Taylor.