Wednesday, April 30, 2008

VOCABULARY WORD NO. 17

The road approaches and the journey nears an end and prepares for a new beginning.
(Brenda A. Ysaguirre)

Today's Word "edify"
edify \ED-uh-fy\ (transitive verb) - To instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge; to teach. --edifying, adjective "He attended like holiness itself; He attended to edify the people with His example, to teach them His doctrine, and to favor men with His grace." -- José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, 'The Mangy Parrot: The Life and Times of Periquillo Sarniento' Edify is from Old French edifier, from Latin aedifico, aedificare, to build.

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