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• ædifice (archaic)

Noun

edifice ‎(plural edifices)

1. A building; a structure; an architectural fabric, especially an imposing one; a large or fine building, public or private.
2. An abstract structure; a school of thought.
   • 1904, Edward S. Holden, “Copernicus”, in Popular science monthly, volume 65, page 117:

     The real difficulty was moral, not intellectual. Was the whole edifice of Ptolemy to be destroyed?

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