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re-ˈedifier
[re- 5 a; or f. next + -er1.]
One who rebuilds, a rebuilder. Now rare.
1538Leland Itin. (1769) IV. 8 He thinketh that the Vaulx were Reedifiers of it. 1579Fenton Guicciard. (1618) 24 An old opinion..that Charlemaine was the reedifier of their citie. 1675Sherburne Sphere Manilius 66 [Philippi] afterwards renamed from Philip..its Reedifier. 1767S. Paterson Another Trav. I. 425 Re-edifiers of fallen temples! and quickeners of dead laurels! 1832–4De Quincey Cæsars Wks. 1862 IX. 35 She looked up to him..as the re-edifier of her husband's honours. |