edificate
English
Etymology
Verb
edificate (third-person singular simple present edificates, present participle edificating, simple past and past participle edificated)
- 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
- inflection of edificare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
edificate f pl
- feminine plural of edificato
Anagrams
Spanish
Verb
edificate