ædifice

ædifice (plural ædifices)

1. Archaic spelling of edifice.
   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan : or, The Matter, Forme & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civill (1904 reprint edited by Alfred Rayney Waller; link):

     For the understanding whereof, we may consider, that there is in mens aptnesse to Society, a diversity of Nature, rising from their diversity of Affections; not unlike to that we see in stones brought together for building of an Ædifice.

ædifice m (plural ædifices)

1. archaic form of édifice
   • 1628, Sébastien Roulliard, Melun ou l'Histoire de la Ville de Melun, page 625:

     […] par meſme moyen auſſi, ie me mis à iecter les premiers fondements, de l’ædifice de cette nouuelle Hiſtoire.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)