ædifice

A form of edifice — A building; a structure; an architectural fabric, especially a large and spectacular one.

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Meanings

nounædifice (plural ædifices)

plural ædifices

  1. archaicArchaic spelling of edifice.

    The Fleet at rest was a glassy ædifice, smooth and unscaleable.

    2014, Nick Harkaway, Tigerman, Random House, page 329
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    For the understanding whereof, we may consider, that there is in mens aptnesse to Society, a diversity of Nature, rising from their diversity of Affections; not unlike to that we see in stones brought together for building of an Ædifice.

    1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan : or, The Matter, Forme & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civill (1904 reprint edited by Alfred Rayney Waller; link)
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