From the ArcaMax Publishing, Vocabulary Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/vocabulary/s-335019-216651
edify \ED-uh-fy\ (transitive verb) - To instruct and improve,
especially in moral and religious knowledge; to teach. --edifying,
adjective
"He attended like holiness itself; He attended to edify the people
with His example, to teach them His doctrine, and to favor men with
His grace." -- José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, 'The Mangy
Parrot: The Life and Times of Periquillo Sarniento'
Edify is from Old French edifier, from Latin aedifico, aedificare, to
build.