English

Adjective

edificant ‎(comparative more edificant, superlative most edificant)

1. building; constructing
   • 1655, Dugard, Verses on Gataker

     And as his pen was often militant / Nor less triumphant; so edificant / It also was, like those blessed builders, who / Stood on their guard, and stoutly builded too.

   • Ralph Waldo Emerson

     Men are edificant or otherwise. Samuel Hoar is to all men's eyes conservative and constructive […]