edificate

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English

Etymology

From Latin aedifico.

Verb

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

  1. to build
    • 1899, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero:
      Vides my Fili, what a little nous Suffices to edificate a house!
    • 1904, Warwick Deeping, Love Among the Ruins, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, page 119:
      'Madame, I do not edificate souls.'
    • 2012 December 6, Roger Buvat, Ontogeny, Cell Differentiation, and Structure of Vascular Plants, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 78:
      proembryo showing the suspensor growth through transversal mitoses, and the three tiers that will edificate the embryo;

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

edificate

  1. inflection of edificare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

edificate f pl

  1. feminine plural of edificato

Anagrams

Spanish

Verb

edificate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of edificar combined with te