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Erect [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Upright, or in a perpendicular posture; as, he stood erect

2. Directed upward.

3. And suppliant hands, to heaven erect

4. Upright and firm; bold; unshaken.

5. Let no vain fear thy generous ardor tame;

6. But stand erect

7. Raised; stretched; intent; vigorous; as a vigilant and erect attention of mind in prayer.

8. Stretched; extended.

9. In botany, an erect stem is one which is without support from twining, or nearly perpendicular; an erect leaf is one which grows close to the stem; an erect flower has its aperture directed upwards.

Erect [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To rise upright.

Erect [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To raise and set in an upright or perpendicular direction, or nearly such; as, to erect a pole or flag-staff.

2. To erect a perpendicular, is to set or form one line on another at right angles.

3. To raise, as a building; to set up; to build; as, to erect a house or temple; to erect a fort.

4. To set up or establish anew; to found; to form; as, to erect a kingdom or commonwealth; to erect a new system or theory.

5. To elevate; to exalt.

6. I am far from pretending to infallibility; that would be to erect myself into an apostle.

7. To raise; to excite; to animate; to encourage.

8. Why should not hope

9. As much erect our thoughts, as fear deject them?

10. To raise a consequence from premises. [Little used.]

11. Malebranche erects this proposition.

12. To extend; to distend.

Erect [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.

2. Directed upward; raised; uplifted.

3. Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.

4. Watchful; alert.

5. Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached.

6. Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.

Erect [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To rise upright.

Erect [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

4. To animate; to encourage; to cheer.

5. To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like.

6. To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.

Erectable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

That can be erected; as an erectable feather.

Erectable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather.

Erected [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Set in a straight and perpendicular direction; set upright; raised; built; established; elevated; animated; extended and distended.

Erected [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Erecter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that erects; one that raises or builds.

Erecter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An erector; one who raises or builds.

Erectile [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated.

Erectility [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being erectile.

Erecting [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Raising and setting upright; building; founding; establishing; elevating; inciting; extending and distending.

Erecting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Erection [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of raising and setting perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; a setting upright.

2. The act of raising or building, as an edifice or fortification; as the erection of a wall, or of a house.

3. The state of being raised, built or elevated.

4. Establishment; settlement; formation; as the erection of a commonwealth, or of a new system; the erection of a bishop-rick or an earldom.

5. Elevation; exaltation of sentiments.

6. Her peerless height my mind to high erection draws up.

7. Act of rousing; excitement; as the erection of the spirits.

8. Any thing erected; a building of any kind.

9. Distension and extension.

Erection [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage.

2. The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes.

3. State of being stretched to stiffness; tension.

4. Anything erected; a building of any kind.

5. The state of a part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue.

Erective [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Setting upright; raising.

Erective [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect.

Erectly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In an erect posture.

Erectly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In an erect manner or posture.

Erectness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Uprightness of posture or form.

Erectness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Uprightness of posture or form.

Erecto-patent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.

2. Standing partially spread and erect; -- said of the wings of certain insects.

Erector [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A muscle that erects; one that raises.

Erector [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, erects.

2. A muscle which raises any part.

3. An attachment to a microscope, telescope, or other optical instrument, for making the image erect instead of inverted.