ædifice

Noun

 * 1) * 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan : or, The Matter, Forme & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civill (1904 reprint edited by Alfred Rayney Waller; link):
 * For the understanding whereof, we may consider, that there is in mens aptnesse to Society, a diversity of Nature, rising from their diversity of Affections; not unlike to that we see in stones brought together for building of an Ædifice.
 * For the understanding whereof, we may consider, that there is in mens aptnesse to Society, a diversity of Nature, rising from their diversity of Affections; not unlike to that we see in stones brought together for building of an Ædifice.