erect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈɹɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: erects
form: erecting
form: erected
form: erected
Etymology: From Middle English erecten, from the adjective (see above).
Senses: examples: text: to erect a house or a fort
glosses: To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
glosses: To cause to stand up or out.
examples: text: to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.
glosses: To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
examples: text: As soon as electrical power was restored, the attitude indicators' gyros would have begun to erect.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
To spin up and align to vertical.
raw_tags: of a gyroscopic attitude indicator
examples: text: that didst his state above his hopes erect
ref: 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
text: , Preface
I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.
glosses: To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
examples: text: It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of Contentment”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 332:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
examples: text: On the 17th of July, the patient returned to the country, perfectly healed: the penis erected and he was capable of coition.
ref: 1828, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, page 113:
text: On an adequate stimulus the penis erected, the testes were drawn up, and the dartos muscle slowly contracted.
ref: 1917, Brain: A Journal of Neurology, page 292:
text: His black dick erected with a long bend.
ref: 2008 September 15, Naval Ahmed, Blue Moon On Bandideau, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 234:
text: When the penis erects, blood pours into what erectile tissue there is and enlarges the penis somewhat, but by making it turgid, the S-shaped bend is straightened out and the penis extends.
ref: 2012 July 12, Tim Glover, Mating Males: An Evolutionary Perspective on Mammalian Reproduction, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: To enter a state of physiological erection.
examples: text: from fallacious foundations, and misapprehended mediums, erecting conclusions no way inferrible from their premises
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC:
text: Malebranche erects this proposition.
ref: a. 1705, John Locke, “An Examination of P[ère] Malebranche’s Opinion of Seeing All Things in God”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC:
glosses: To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
examples: text: to erect a new commonwealth
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: In 1686, he was appointed one of the Commissioners in the new ecclesiastical commission erected by King James, and was proud of that honour.
ref: 1812, Arthur Collins & Sir Egerton Brydges, Peerage of England, F.C. and J. Rivington et al, page 330
glosses: To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
Synonyms: build
Derived terms: erectable
erecter
erecting shop
erective
nonerecting
piloerect
preerected
re-erect
reerect
unerected