All 3 Uses
edify
in
Faust -- translated by Brooks
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- Bright shadows fleeting o'er a mirror,
A spark of truth and clouds of error,
By means like these a drink is brewed
To cheer and edify the multitude.†Chpt Alledify = instruct - Hast nothing for our edification?†
Chpt All *edification = instruction
- Than if it had been a basket of nuts,
Promised them all sorts of heavenly pay—And greatly edified were they.†Chpt Alledified = instructed
Definitions:
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(1)
(edify) to instruct -- morally or intellectually
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)