edificate

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verb

to build

OriginLatin aedifico →
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Meanings

verbedificate (third-person singular simple present edificates, present participle edificating, simple past and past participle edificated)

present singular third person edificates · participle present edificating · participle past edificated · past edificated

  1. to build

    'Madame, I do not edificate souls.'

    1904, Warwick Deeping, Love Among the Ruins, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, page 119
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    Vides my Fili, what a little nous Suffices to edificate a house!

    1899, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

    proembryo showing the suspensor growth through transversal mitoses, and the three tiers that will edificate the embryo;

    2012 December 6, Roger Buvat, Ontogeny, Cell Differentiation, and Structure of Vascular Plants, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 78

Origin

  1. Latinaedifico
  2. Englishedificate

From Latin aedifico.

More words from Latin

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

deificate
Cite this entry
APA

edificate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/edificate

MLA

“edificate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/edificate. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “edificate,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/edificate.

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