reedify

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verb

To edify anew; to build again after destruction.

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Meanings

verbreedify (third-person singular simple present reedifies, present participle reedifying, simple past and past participle reedified)

present singular third person reedifies · participle present reedifying · participle past reedified · past reedified · alternative re-edify · alternative reëdify

  1. transitiveTo edify anew; to build again after destruction.

    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 :

    1667, John Milton, “Book XII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 347-352

Origin

From re- + edify: compare French réédifier, Latin reaedificare.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

redeifydereify
Cite this entry
APA

reedify. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reedify

MLA

“reedify.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reedify. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reedify,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reedify.

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