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   edified
         adj 1: instructed and encouraged in moral, intellectual, and
                  spiritual improvement

English Dictionary: Eudyptes by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Eudyptes
n
  1. rock hoppers
    Synonym(s): Eudyptes, genus Eudyptes
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Edify \Ed"i*fy\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Edified}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Edifying}.] [F. [82]difier, L. aedificare; aedes a building,
      house, orig., a fireplace (akin to Gr. [?] to burn, Skr. idh
      to kindle, OHG. eit funeral pile, AS. [be]d, OIr. aed fire) +
      facere to make. See {Fact}, {-fy}.]
      1. To build; to construct. [Archaic]
  
                     There was a holy chapel edified.         --Spenser.
  
      2. To instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious
            knowledge; to teach.
  
                     It does not appear probable that our dispute [about
                     miracles] would either edify or enlighten the
                     public.                                             --Gibbon.
  
      3. To teach or persuade. [Obs.] --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quaker \Quak"er\, n.
      1. One who quakes.
  
      2. One of a religious sect founded by George {Fox}, of
            Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of
            which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers,
            originally, in derision. See {Friend}, n., 4.
  
                     Fox's teaching was primarily a preaching of
                     repentance . . . The trembling among the listening
                     crowd caused or confirmed the name of Quakers given
                     to the body; men and women sometimes fell down and
                     lay struggling as if for life.            --Encyc. Brit.
  
      3. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The nankeen bird.
            (b) The sooty albatross.
            (c) Any grasshopper or locust of the genus ({Edipoda}; --
                  so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
  
      {Quaker buttons}. (Bot.) See {Nux vomica}.
  
      {Quaker gun}, a dummy cannon made of wood or other material;
            -- so called because the sect of Friends, or Quakers, hold
            to the doctrine, of nonresistance.
  
      {Quaker ladies} (Bot.), a low American biennial plant
            ({Houstonia c[91]rulea}), with pretty four-lobed corollas
            which are pale blue with a yellowish center; -- also
            called {bluets}, and {little innocents}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Locust \Lo"cust\, n. [L. locusta locust, grasshopper. Cf.
      {Lobster}.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged,
            migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family
            {Acridid[91]}, allied to the grasshoppers; esp.,
            ({Edipoda, [or] Pachytylus, migratoria}, and {Acridium
            perigrinum}, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the
            United States the related species with similar habits are
            usually called {grasshoppers}. See {Grasshopper}.
  
      Note: These insects are at times so numerous in Africa and
               the south of Asia as to devour every green thing; and
               when they migrate, they fly in an immense cloud. In the
               United States the harvest flies are improperly called
               locusts. See {Cicada}.
  
      {Locust beetle} (Zo[94]l.), a longicorn beetle ({Cyllene
            robini[91]}), which, in the larval state, bores holes in
            the wood of the locust tree. Its color is brownish black,
            barred with yellow. Called also {locust borer}.
  
      {Locust bird} (Zo[94]l.) the rose-colored starling or pastor
            of India. See {Pastor}.
  
      {Locust hunter} (Zo[94]l.), an African bird; the beefeater.
  
      2. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) The locust tree. See {Locust
            Tree} (definition, note, and phrases).
  
      {Locust bean} (Bot.), a commercial name for the sweet pod of
            the carob tree.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ethopoetic \Eth"o*po*et"ic\ [Gr. [?]; [?] custom, manners + [?]
      to make or form.]
      Expressing character. [Obs.] --Urquhart.
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