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, “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 :

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(See the entry for reedify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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