erect
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪˈɹɛkt/
- Rhymes: -ɛkt
- Hyphenation: erect
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Etymology 1
From Middle English erect, a borrowing from Latin ērectus (“upright”), past participle of ērigō (“raise, set up”), from ē- (“out”) + regō (“to direct, keep straight, guide”).
Adjective
erect (comparative more erect, superlative most erect)
- Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
- Gibbon
- Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect — a column of ruins.
- Gibbon
- Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly.
- (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
- Keble
- But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?
- Keble
- (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
- Alexander Pope
- His piercing eyes, erect, appear to view / Superior worlds, and look all nature through.
- Alexander Pope
- Watchful; alert.
- Hooker
- vigilant and erect attention of mind
- Hooker
- (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
Antonyms
- (rigid; standing out perpendicularly): flaccid
Translations
vertical in position
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standing out perpendicularly
Etymology 2
From Middle English erecten, from the adjective (see above).
Verb
erect (third-person singular simple present erects, present participle erecting, simple past and past participle erected)
- (transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
- to erect a house or a fort
- (transitive) To cause to stand up or out.
- To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
- to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.
- To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
- Daniel
- that didst his state above his hopes erect
- Dryden
- I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.
- Daniel
- To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
- Barrow
- It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.
- Barrow
- (astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 332:
- In 1581 Parliament made it a statutory felony to erect figures, cast nativities, or calculate by prophecy how long the Queen would live or who would succeed her.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 332:
- To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
- Sir Thomas Browne
- to erect conclusions.
- John Locke
- Malebranche erects this proposition.
- Sir Thomas Browne
- To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
- Hooker
- to erect a new commonwealth
- 1812, Arthur Collins & Sir Egerton Brydges, Peerage of England, F.C. and J. Rivington et al, page 330:
- In 1686, he was appointed one of the Commissioners in the new ecclesiastical commission erected by King James, and was proud of that honour.
- Hooker
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Translations
to put up by the fitting together of materials or parts
to cause to stand up or out
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