Examples from literature

• As an impartial historian, I consider it my duty to notice their several theories, by which mankind have been so exceedingly edified and instructed. 
• He did not pronounce windy orations about things that did not concern or edify them. 
• He himself has expressed some part of his thoughts on that subject, and we cannot read them without being edified. 
• The history of Congress is strewn with oratorical derelicts, who have often edified their auditors, but quite as often blocked the course of legislation.