erect
adjective
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L22999 on Wikidata ↗verb
- to raise, put up
- to establish a building
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹɛkt/
adj
Etymology: 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”).
- Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
“Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect—a column in a scene of ruins.”
- Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.
“The penis should be fully erect before commencing copulation.”
“erect nipples”
- Having an erect penis or clitoris.
“OK, baby, I'm erect now. Let's get it on!”
- Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
“But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?”
- Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
“His piercing Eyes, erect, appear to vievv / Superior VVorlds, and look all Nature thro'.”
- Watchful; alert.
“vigilant and erect attention of mind”
- Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English erecten, from the adjective (see above).
- To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
“to erect a house or a fort”
- 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 raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
“As soon as electrical power was restored, the attitude indicators' gyros would have begun to erect.”
- To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
“that didst his state above his hopes erect”
“, Preface I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.”
- To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
“It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.”
- To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
“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.”
- To enter a state of physiological erection.
“On the 17th of July, the patient returned to the country, perfectly healed: the penis erected and he was capable of coition.”
“On an adequate stimulus the penis erected, the testes were drawn up, and the dartos muscle slowly contracted.”
- To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
“from fallacious foundations, and misapprehended mediums, erecting conclusions no way inferrible from their premises”
“Malebranche erects this proposition.”
- To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
“to erect a new commonwealth”
“In 1686, he was appointed one of the Commissioners in the new ecclesiastical commission erected by King James, and was proud of that honour.”