Difference between Edified and Enlightened

Edified

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To build, construct.

Enlightened

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: educated or informedMade aware of somethingFreed from illusionExceedingly wise

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Someone who has been introduced to the mysteries of some activity, religion especially Buddhism

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To supply with light.

Example sentence: We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.