Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To rebuild; build again after destruction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To edify anew; to build again after destruction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
edify anew; tobuild again afterdestruction .
Etymologies
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re- + edify: compare French réédifier, Latin reaedificare.
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Examples
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LEYS, who lived here a long time, did either found or reedify this church: their arms being fixed over the door, upon the fount, and in the windows.
Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent 1767
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