Verb (used with object), : religious paintings that edify the viewer.    From Dictionary.com. 

Others would hear him and be edified, which is one of the purposes of public praise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

There are two things, then -- the being 'edified' and 'walking'; and I wish to say a word or two about each of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts] Reference

It has been often ruinated, and as often re-edified.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral] Reference

Presbyterian, we didn't think we should be much edified.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference

Unless, of course, they've been edified beyond wonderment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nothing Here But Kid Stuff] Reference

"Are they always like this?" the prince asked, much edified.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Twins] Reference

For thou indeed givest thanks well: but the other is not edified.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 53: 1 Corinthians The Challoner Revision] Reference

The legates departed exceedingly edified at what they saw and heard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

All who had the privilege of listening to it were cheered and edified.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 9, September, 1896] Reference

The rank and file who had been edified by such men as J.L. Rock, Charles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details] Reference

Grimoald, king of the Lombards, who had edified all Italy by his conversion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

And the children admired and were edified, and they whispered among themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference

Brother Spyke continues nearly an hour, sending his audience into a highly-edified state.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference

"Let us first be edified by the Spanish catechism, if it please your majesty," and she read.    From Wordnik.com.  [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference

During the eleven years which he spent at Granville, his congregation was decidedly edified.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference

With a well-filled stomach, the lamb stared out at the world in general, and seemed greatly edified.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrong Woman] Reference

When he said this, that Brother was greatly edified at the humble words that proceeded from his mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes] Reference

Her husband, edified by her example, concurred with her in every pious undertaking which she projected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

And yet this is the picture-writing of the Aztecs, with which the world has been so edified for centuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference

Jonson was not the man to be edified by the beautiful examples and the nobler words of his gentle adversary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference

"And do you imagine that your brains will be edified by coming in contact with these books?" asked Hamilton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis' School Days A Story for Boys] Reference

It was the people, considered as a congregation, who ought to appoint the teacher by whom they were to be edified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

He had a sheaf of evening papers under his arm, and was yelling with much enthusiasm to an edified crowd: -- 'Noose of the War!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ideala] Reference

Greatly delighted and edified by this sermon read with unusual vivacity and feeling, Deacon Rose, who was then blind, inquired.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference

The news of so unthought of an event both surprised and edified the whole country; many even imitated the example of the governor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

I have quite lately been edified with the tone of lofty, indignant scorn with which one of these papers -- published in the city of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Baptist churches in the State, and while they taught school during the week, they inspired and edified their congregations on Sunday.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference