Brewer's: Ediles

(2 syl.). Roman officers who had charge of the streets, bridges, aqueducts, temples, and city buildings generally. We call our surveyors city ediles sometimes. (Latin, ædes, a house.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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