* ex-aedĭfĭcātĭo, ōnis, f. [exaedifico], a building, erecting, completion of an edifice; trop. of an oration: ipsa autem exaedificatio posita est in rebus et verbis, Cic. de Or. 2, 15, 63; Ambros. in Psa. 118, Serm. 4, § 15.