edificen.
/ˈɛdɪfɪs/ 1.
a. A building, usually a large and stately building, as a church, palace, temple, or fortress; a fabric, structure.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > [noun]
bottleeOE
houseeOE
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building1297
builda1387
edificec1386
mansion1389
bigginga1400
housinga1400
edification1432
edifying1432
fabric1483
edify1555
structure1560
erection1609
framec1639
bastiment1679
drum1846
dump1899
gaff1932
c1386 G. Chaucer Melibeus ⁋367 Castelles and othere manere edifices.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 94 And with this they shal ordeyne solempne edifices & houses for the cite.
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) IV. 55 The ædifices of the Abbey have beene made by many men in continuance.
a1612 J. Harington Short View State Ireland (1879) 19 Hee cold not preach to edefye the Church yet hee will bee famows to all posterytye for edifyces in the Church.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 210 I haue lost my edifice, by mistaking the place, where I erected it. View more context for this quotation
1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) ii. ii. iv. 253 The inner roomes of a faire built & sumptuous ædifice.
1711 Dissenting Teachers Addr. 10 Shall this be done for a few ungodly steepled Ædifices?
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) I. 128 For you will see under water..the ruins of many edifices.
1849 E. A. Freeman Hist. Archit. 14 A moist and a dry climate require different kinds of edifices.
b. transferred and figurative.
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1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 98. ¶1 I am not for adding to the beautiful Edifices of Nature.
1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) II. 485 The edifice of a new church must have been raised on a purely democratical basis.
1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation §5. 223 Upon the integrity and judgment of these Quinqueviri will depend really the whole edifice of the University.
1878 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 1st Ser. 197 The corner-stone of Comte's edifice.
a. The action or process of building or construction.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [noun]
bigginga1325
rearinga1325
buildingc1394
edifying1432
upbringing1484
rising?a1500
upmaking1513
upbigging1525
edification1549
erecting1553
structure1604
erection1614
compilementa1639
architecture1646
exstruction1652
built1654
edifice1663
fabric1730
upbuilding1732
builth1805
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 2 How..Princes and Magistrates have proceeded in their Edifices.
b. Style of building, architecture.
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1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 510 The arsenall and armory..being of a straunge and wonderfull edifice.
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