Definition of "edificatory" []

• Tending to edification. (adjective)

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• "In the President's defense, it seems only fair to concede that what few books he is publicly known to have opened don't seem all that edificatory."
• "Moreover, we must remember that we are not here dealing with an account set down by the patient herself, but with an edificatory inscription put up by the temple officials."
• "Ethics itself appears not as yet in scientific form and apart from the presentation of the subject-matter of dogmatics; it appears more in the popular edificatory than in the scientific writings, and approaches more nearly a scientific form in the works written in self-defense against the heathen."