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re-edifyv.Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French reedifier. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French reedifier, redifier (French réédifier ) to rebuild, reconstruct (13th cent. in Old French, also as redefier ) < re- re- prefix + edifier edify v., after post-classical Latin reaedificare to rebuild (Vulgate; compare classical Latin redaedificare). Compare Old Occitan rehedificar (14th cent.), redificar (15th cent.), Catalan reedificar (14th cent.), Spanish reedificar (14th cent.), Portuguese reedificar (15th cent.), Italian riedificare (a1342). 1. the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > construct > again or anew α. a1425 St. Anthony 9 in (1881) 4 121 Hys edyfycacione and hys celle, þat sodanly was throwen done, sodanly was reedyfyed. 1485 VI. 313/2 Your Besecher..myght not be suffred to reedifie and make ageyn the said two Forges. a1513 H. Bradshaw (1521) ii. iv. sig. n.viii This noble duchesse..Reedified Chestre, and fortified it full ryght. 1594 W. West ii. Chancerie §85 They yet doe deny and refuse..to repaire and reedify the said tenements and premisses. 1608 E. Topsell 242 If it happen at any time that a house be burned,..when the people come to reedifie, they can very hardly displant their number. 1631 J. Weever 267 The Langleys..did either found or reedifie this Church. 1688 J. Evelyn (1955) IV. 596 Northampton,..having lately ben burnt & reedified. 1722 D. Defoe 109 To beautify the City, and re-edify the Buildings. 1775 R. Chandler lvii. 193 Hadrian is said to have re-edified and named it Hadrianopolis. 1818 C. Mills (1822) I. i. 4 The impious and vain attempt of the Emperor Julian to re-edify the walls of the holy city. 1894 S. Baring-Gould II. 103 Men began everywhere to erect churches, and re-edify those that were ruinous. 1962 P. M. Kendall i. 55 Occasionally a gild, sometimes a wealthy merchant, undertook to re-edify a section of wall. 1996 J. Lees-Milne ii. 19 Paul Methuen bought the Corsham property.., re-edifying and extending an existing manor house. β. c1450 (?a1422) J. Lydgate (Durh.) iii. 1577 (MED) Amos..saythe he shall newly by myracle Restore aȝeine and eke redifiee [rhyme regalie, Ysaye]..the myghty tabernacle Of kynge dauid.?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 173 (MED) This Cambises wolde not suffre the temple to be redifiede [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. be i-bulde; L. reædificari] in his tyme.a1500 (Trin. Cambr.) 3700 Which church he shall welle redyfy.1545 G. Joye (vi.) f. 85 For ye walles of Ierusalem & temple to be redified.1569 R. Grafton II. 755 Edmond Shaw..of his awne costs redefied Cripplegate.1621 W. Slatyer ix. xi. 245 Hee redified Godstow, Wroxhall, and the Chappell of Snaris borough.1636 in D. G. Barron (1892) 79 John Gairdyne wha..demolished the samen [house] is..ordeanit to reidifie the samen.society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > rebuild ship 1576 W. Lambarde 277 All these [ships] hath [Queen Elizabeth] either wholy built upon the stocks, or newly reedified upon the olde moaldes. the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > re-establish 1511 H. Watson tr. St. Bernardino sig. C.iiv Leue these playes cursed & dampnable and put payne to redyfye by good werkes those and them that by your sclaundre haue ben yll edyfyed. 1541 T. Elyot xv. f. 26v This publyke weale, whiche beinge subuerted,..I haue reedified. 1592 S. Daniel Complaynt of Rosamond in sig. M.4 Thy fauourable lynes Reedified the wracke of my decayes. 1603 M. Drayton i. xxiii. 9 Reedified great Arthurs auncient boord. a1652 R. Brome New Acad. iv. ii. 79 in (1659) The least syllable of your fair testimony, is able to re-edifie the ruines of a decayed commendation. a1734 R. North (1740) i. iii. §67 173 This had certainly confounded Oates, if other Circumstances and Incidents had not reedified him. 1822 W. Hazlitt II. xvii. 392 My public and private hopes have been left a ruin,..I would wish them to be re-edified. 1859 W. T. Smithson (ed. 3) 366 It is his high prerogative..to re-edify the fallen temple of the human soul, to re-adorn it with the beauties of holiness. 1996 (B.B.C.) (Nexis) 26 May EE/D2622/A Our task is to release the energies by eliminating outdated structures..and to re-edify government in its new role of providing a supportive framework for free market operations for growth. the world > health and disease > healing > heal or cure [verb (transitive)] > restore to health 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. III. 479 As the gastralgia subsides the patient must be re-edified in the usual way. Derivatives the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > creating or constructing again > created or constructed again 1595 R. Parry xiv. sig. R 2 Lord and Prince of that reedified and late recouered Florence. 1633 Bp. J. Hall i. 562 There shall be holy service performed to my name, in the re-edified Temple. 1651 Lady E. Douglas sig. D2 Accursed Jerocho's re-edified Gates. 1862 W. Anderson I. 102 Melrose abbey..was partially consumed by fire in 1322, and what now remains of the re-edified structure exhibits a style of architecture of the richest Gothic. 1953 J. Lees-Milne vii. 218 Inigo Jones's re-edified cathedral and the portico..were not then in such hopeless plight that their total demolition was justified. 2001 D. Dixon in vii. 113 But what of the Four Courts, the re-edified university and the new bridge? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.a1425 |