Which preposition to use with edify
He then proceeded to denounce Douglas and the Democratic party in language that was very edifying to the few Republicans who chanced to be present.
I have sanctified and hallowed this house that thou hast edified for to put my name therein for evermore, and my eyes and heart shall be thereon always.
We were really edified in being present.
Rev. & edified from an old script by Judson Kilpatrick and J. Owen Moore.
Many other persons in all ranks of life were, in like manner, consoled and edified by visiting her bed of suffering.
The body was taken into the meeting-house at Newington, and the company of mourners and all present were, I believe, comforted and edified through the tender mercies of our Heavenly Father.
I might have told him there was nothing particularly pretty or particularly edifying about the process of being killed.
You, the Rev. Mr. C, let your gay and wealthy congregation be edified with a solemn and impressive sermon on Is.
Not at the club; it's too full of people we know, who keep interrupting, and who would be tremendously edified at catching murmurs about libel and murder and Lady Pinkerton being poisoned.
The gates of Jerusalem shall be edified of sapphire and emerald, and all the circuit of his walls of precious stone; all the streets thereof shall be paved with white stone and clean; and Alleluia shall be sung by the ways thereof.
A negro preacher in a southern town was edified on one occasion by the recital of a dream had by a member of the church.
But if they pray habitually in the closet, they will edify out of it.