Edification

For the satisfaction of the curious, and the edification of the genealogist, I will state that my ancestors came to this country from England in the middle of the seventeenth century.

The geology course isn't required; I'm taking it for my own edification.

Tom dedicated his life to the edification of the masses.

Let euery one of vs please his neighbour for his good to edification.

Caterina Pachetti had been a very pretty women, which she remembered more to her own edification than to that of her friends.

It seems clear that he took great delight in his commonly perceived role as “the No 1 celebrity scientist”; huge audiences would attend his public lectures, perhaps not always just for scientific edification.