Ed"i*fy, v. i. To improve. [R.] Swift.
Ed"i*fy`ing (?), a. Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation. -- Ed"i*fy`ing*ly, adv. -- Ed"i*fy`ing*ness, n.
E"dile (?), n. [L. aedilis: cf. F. édile. Cf. Ædile.] (Rom. Antiq.) See Ædile.
E"dile*ship, n. The office of ædile. T. Arnold.
Ed"ing*ton*ite (?), n. (Min.) A grayish white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta.
Ed"it (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Edited; p. pr. & vb. n. Editing.] [F. éditer, or L. editus, p. p. of edere to give out, put forth, publish; e out + dare to give. See Date a point of time.] To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper.
Philosophical treatises which have never been edited.
Enfield.
E*di"tion (?), n. [L. editio, fr. edere to publish; cf. F. édition. See Edit.] 1. A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of Chaucer; Chalmers' edition of Shakespeare.
2. The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold.
||É`di`tion" de luxe" (?). [F.] See Luxe.