[ad. L. ædificātōrius; see prec. and -ORY.] Intended or suited for purposes of religious edification.
1649. Bp. Hall, Cases Consc., X. (R.). An exercise so beneficially edificatory to the church of God.
1678. Lively Oracles, viii. § 31. 316. Some parts of it … are not so … edificatory to us.
1882–3. Schaff, Relig. Encycl., II. 1613. The edificatory character of Neander’s history.
