Edify is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 44 anagrams from letters in edify (defiy).
1300-50; Middle English edifien Anglo-French, Old French edifier Latin aedificāre to build, equivalent to aedi- (stem of aedes) house, temple + -ficāre -fy
Contains also remarks on terraces, which are expected to edify.
What shocks one part will edify the rest, Nor with one system can they all be blest.
Its aim is not to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion.
To edify each other by conference, prayer, and disputations.
They may edify each other, they certainly have no power of edifying any one else.
Oh all you gallants, that hope to be saued by your cloathes, edify, edify.
But your mirth-makers, can you say they benefit the body or edify the soul?
Historic fidelity is to him a matter of indifference; he is only anxious to edify the reader.
It can edify the readers with the history of remarkable piety and virtue.
He had no idea even now how bad matters were, nor did she care to edify him.