Examples of edify

• As an impartial historian, I consider it my duty to notice their several theories, by which mankind have been so exceedingly edified and instructed. 

• He did not pronounce windy orations about things that did not concern or edify them. 

• He himself has expressed some part of his thoughts on that subject, and we cannot read them without being edified. 

• The history of Congress is strewn with oratorical derelicts, who have often edified their auditors, but quite as often blocked the course of legislation. 

• The experience was an enjoyable and edifying experience for most individuals.

• Aside from offering rudimentary explanations of germ theory, it edified readers about the transmission of syphilis.

• One wonders who will be edified by this book - perhaps students of the ' ' culture wars ' ' of the 1990s.

• For a sermon to ' edify ', they must pray for faith to be edified and attend diligently to what is said.