English

Adjective

edificatory ‎(comparative more edificatory, superlative most edificatory)

1. Tending to edification.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Joseph Hall, Cases of Conscience, x:

     Where these gifts of interpretation and eminent endowments of learning are found, there can be no reason of restraining them from an exercise so beneficially edificatory to the church of God.

References

• edificatory in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• edificatory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913