(verb) : aedĭfĭco, āvi, ātum, 1, aedesfacio, lit.
* To erect a building, to build; and in gen., to build, raise, erect, or establish any thing.
* Lit.: aedificare cum sit proprie aedem facere, ponitur tamen καταχρηστικῶς in omni genere constructionis, Fest. p. 13 Müll.; hence in the first signif. for the most part
* Absol.: aedificare diu cogitare oportet,Cato, R. R. 3, 1: ecce aedificat,Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 56: ad quem (usum) accommodanda est aedificandi descriptio,Cic. Off. 1, 39, 138; id. ib. 2, 23, 83: tribus locis aedifico, reliqua reconcinno,id. Q. Fr. 2, 6: lautius, id Leg. 2, 1, 3: belle,id. Att. 9, 13 al.: accuratius ad frigora atque aestus vitandos,Caes. B. G. 6, 22: diruit, aedificat, mutat quadrata rotundis,Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 100; so id. S. 2, 3, 308.
* In gen., to build, construct, etc.: navim,Plaut. Mer. prol. 87 piscinas, Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 5: navem,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 18: urbem,id. ib. 2, 4, 53; so Vulg. Exod. 1, 11: oppida,ib. 2 Para. 26, 6: turrim,ib. Matt. 21, 3: murum,ib. 2 Para. 33, 14: porticum,Cic. Dom. 43: hortos,id. Att. 9, 13: equum,Verg. A. 2, 16: mundum,Cic. Tusc. 1, 25: tot adhuc compagibus altum aedificat caput,i.e. makes it, by bands and hair ornaments, a high tower,Juv. 6, 501.
* Fig., to build up, establish: rem publicam,Cic. Fam. 9, 2.—And (eccl.) in a religious sense, to build up, instruct, edify.
* Absol.: caritas aedificat,Vulg. 1 Cor. 8, 1: non omnia aedificant,ib. ib. 16, 23.
* With object: semetipsum,Vulg. 1 Cor. 14, 4: alterutrum,ib. 1 Thess. 5, 11.

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