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Erect   /ɪrˈɛkt/   Listen
verb
Erect  v. t.  (past & past part. erected; pres. part. erecting)  
1.
To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.
2.
To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine.
3.
To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify. "That didst his state above his hopes erect." "I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge."
4.
To animate; to encourage; to cheer. "It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance."
5.
To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like. "To erect conclusions." "Malebranche erects this proposition."
6.
To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute. "To erect a new commonwealth."
Erecting shop (Mach.), a place where large machines, as engines, are put together and adjusted.
Synonyms: To set up; raise; elevate; construct; build; institute; establish; found.


Erect  v. i.  To rise upright. (Obs.) "By wet, stalks do erect."


adjective
Erect  adj.  
1.
Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect. "Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall." "Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect a column of ruins."
2.
Directed upward; raised; uplifted. "His piercing eyes, erect, appear to view Superior worlds, and look all nature through."
3.
Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed. "But who is he, by years Bowed, but erect in heart?"
4.
Watchful; alert. "Vigilant and erect attention of mind."
5.
(Bot.) Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached.
6.
(Her.) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.





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... chivalrous, and uplifting. No wonder his people admired him. We saw him once walking in daylight amongst the houses of the settlement. At the doors of huts groups of women turned to look after him, warbling softly, and with gleaming eyes; armed men stood out of the way, submissive and erect; others approached from the side, bending their backs to address him humbly; an old woman stretched out a draped lean arm—"Blessings on thy head!" she cried from a dark doorway; a fiery-eyed man showed above the low fence of a plantain-patch a streaming face, a bare breast scarred ...
— Tales of Unrest • Joseph Conrad
... virtuous men, full of zeal for the cause of truth. It is piety only that inspires nobility and greatness of soul. Piety sustains us under the most extreme dangers, and triumphs over the severest obstacles. The good conscience always marches forward with its head erect." ...
— The Huguenots in France • Samuel Smiles
... differ in their manner of growth, being erect, or spreading, or pendulous. The periods of leafing and flowering differ both absolutely and relatively to each other; thus the Whitesmith produces early flowers, which from not being protected by the foliage, as it is believed, continually fail to produce fruit.[736] The leaves vary in ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. • Charles Darwin
... and dashed away a tear or two that made me feel like a girl, for just then there was a rustle, and looking round, there was one of Old Brownsmith's cats coming along the path with curved back, and tail drooped sidewise, and every hair upon it erect till it ...
— Brownsmith's Boy - A Romance in a Garden • George Manville Fenn
... a Committee was formed (with Prof. Poulton as Chairman and Prof. Meldola as Treasurer) to erect a memorial, and the following petition was sent to the Dean ...
— Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2 (of 2) • James Marchant


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