edificatory

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛdɪfɪˈkeɪtəɹi/

edificatory (comparative more edificatory, superlative most edificatory)

1. Tending to edification.
   • 1649-1654, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience

     Where these gifts of interpretation and eminent endowments of learning are found, there can be no reason of restraining them from an exercise so beneficially edificatory to the church of God.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “edificatory”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “edificatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• deificatory