edified

From edify +‎ -ed.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛdɪfaɪd/

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edified

1. simple past and past participle of edify

edified (comparative more edified, superlative most edified)

1. Furnished with buildings.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Long they thus travelled in friendly wise, / Through countreyes waste, and eke well edifyde [...].

   • 2007, Peter M. Burns, ‎Marina Novelli, Tourism and Politics:

     In Calvià the demoasidetion of 16 hotels built in the early 1970s and the new planning strategies have given visibiasidety to a possible reuse of edified areas often showing relevant impacts, in Rimini the project tried to put into action a process of divulgation on sustainable tourism themes.

   • 2013, Claudio Margottini, ‎Paolo Canuti, ‎Kyoji Sassa, Landslide Science and Practice: Volume 6, page 393:

     The Pissaglio river alluvial fan is the area where about 90% of Bruzolo edified areas are located (Fig. 2) .

2. Built or constructed.
   • 2016, Vitor Abrantes, ‎Bárbara Rangel, ‎José Manuel Amorim Faria, The Pre-Fabrication of Building Facades, page 37:

     Based on the definition put forward and the fact that the elements surrounding the square should be clearly visible, we can state that it is not the edified elements which delimit the square, but rather, that it is the square which bestows on them a tangential sense of boundary and conformation;

   • 2016, Telmo Adão, ‎Luís Magalhães, ‎Emanuel Peres, Ontology-based Procedural Modelling of Traversable Buildings Composed by Arbitrary Shapes, page 43:

     Summing up, the designed buildings' generic ontology intends to establish a generalist organization for edified structures, based on the CityGML standard.

   • 2024, Ana Arromba Dinis, Fátima David, Liliana Pereira, Assessing Policy Landscapes in Taxation Dynamics, page 331:

     Still in the colonial period, it began to be charged when it focused on the ownership of edified buildings.

3. Morally or intellectually improved.
   • 1832, John Warton, Death-bed Scenes and Pastoral Conversations, page 448:

     Will you allow then at once, that their feeling, and their notion of being more edified, will justify their heresies and their schism?

   • 1845, William Beveridge, The Theological Works, volume 6, page 396:

     The oftener you are at them, the better you will like them, and the more edified you will be by them;

   • 1988, Mediation and Older Americans, page 37:

     I am personally very edified at the amount of energy and effort they apply to age cases, not only dealing with the people and the issues but frequently dealing with other related issues as well.

   • 1993 (quote dated 1914), Sigmund Freud, ‎Sándor Ferenczi, ‎Eva Brabant-Gerö, The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, page 7:

     I concede that I may be overestimating Jung's significance for your emotional life, as he himself did, and you can believe me when I say that I am not very edified by this symptom of unconscious identification with him.

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