Today’s Word “edify”
edify ED-uh-fy (transitive verb) – To instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge; to teach. –edifying, adjective
“He attended like holiness itself; He attended to edify the people with His example, to teach them His doctrine, and to favor men with His grace.” — José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, ‘The Mangy Parrot: The Life and Times of Periquillo Sarniento’
Edify is from Old French edifier, from Latin aedifico, aedificare, to build.