edificant
adjEtymology From Latin aedificans, aedificantis, present participle of aedificare. See edify.
1
building; constructing
- 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.1655, William Dugard et al., Verses on Gataker:
- Men are edificant or otherwise. Samuel Hoar is to all men's eyes conservative and constructive […]1845, Ralph Waldo Emerson, journal entry: