"edificatory" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more edificatory",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most edificatory",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "edificatory (comparative more edificatory, superlative most edificatory)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1649-1654, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience\nWhere these gifts of interpretation and eminent endowments of learning are found, there can be no reason of restraining them from an exercise so beneficially edificatory to the church of God."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Tending to edification."
      ],
      "id": "en-edificatory-en-adj-F1~3l37U",
      "links": [
        [
          "edification",
          "edification"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɛdɪfɪˈkeɪtəɹi/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "edificatory"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more edificatory",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most edificatory",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "edificatory (comparative more edificatory, superlative most edificatory)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1649-1654, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience\nWhere these gifts of interpretation and eminent endowments of learning are found, there can be no reason of restraining them from an exercise so beneficially edificatory to the church of God."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Tending to edification."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "edification",
          "edification"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɛdɪfɪˈkeɪtəɹi/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "edificatory"
}