edificate

English

Etymology

From Latin aedifico.

Verb

edificate (third-person singular simple present edificates, present participle edificating, simple past and past participle edificated)

1. to build
   • 1899, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero:

     Vides my Fili, what a little nous Suffices to edificate a house!

   • 1904, Warwick Deeping, Love Among the Ruins, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, page 119:

     'Madame, I do not edificate souls.'

   • 2012 December 6, Roger Buvat, Ontogeny, Cell Differentiation, and Structure of Vascular Plants, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 78:

     proembryo showing the suspensor growth through transversal mitoses, and the three tiers that will edificate the embryo;

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

edificate

1. inflection of edificare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

edificate f pl

1. feminine plural of edificato

Anagrams

• deificate

Spanish

Verb

edificate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of edificar combined with te