edifice

Etymology

From Middle English edifice, from Old French edifice, a classical borrowing of Latin aedificium (“building”), derived from aedificāre (“to build, establish”) (whence also English edify).

noun

  1. A building; a structure; an architectural fabric, especially a large and spectacular one
  2. An abstract structure; a school of thought.
    The real difficulty was moral, not intellectual. Was the whole edifice of Ptolemy to be destroyed? 1904, Edward S. Holden, “Copernicus”, in Popular science monthly, volume 65, page 117

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