erect
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
astrology
aviation
business
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government
heraldry
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
monarchy
mysticism
natural-sciences
nobility
philosophy
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: more erect
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most erect
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: erects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: erecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: erected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: erected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
pos: adj
examples: Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect—a column in a scene of ruins.
gloss: Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.
pos: adj
examples: The penis should be fully erect before commencing copulation.
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gloss: Having an erect penis or clitoris.
pos: adj
examples: OK, baby, I'm erect now. Let's get it on!
gloss: Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?
gloss: Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: His piercing Eyes, erect, appear to vievv / Superior VVorlds, and look all Nature thro'.
gloss: Watchful; alert.
pos: adj
examples: vigilant and erect attention of mind
gloss: Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
pos: adj
gloss: To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to erect a house or a fort
gloss: To cause to stand up or out.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
pos: verb
examples: to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.
gloss: To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: As soon as electrical power was restored, the attitude indicators' gyros would have begun to erect.
gloss: To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: that didst his state above his hopes erect
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I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.
gloss: To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.
gloss: To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To enter a state of physiological erection.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
His black dick erected with a long bend.
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.
gloss: To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: from fallacious foundations, and misapprehended mediums, erecting conclusions no way inferrible from their premises
Malebranche erects this proposition.
gloss: To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
Synonyms: build
Antonyms: flaccid
Related words: erect-crested penguin
erectile
erection
erigible
Derived words: erectly
erectness
erectogenic
erectopatent
erectophile
inerect
nonerect
semierect
suberect
unerect
erectable
erecter
erecting shop
erective
nonerecting
piloerect
preerected
re-erect
reerect
unerected
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: pystyttää
lang: Irish
word: cuir suas
lang: Spanish
word: erguir
lang: Spanish
word: enhestar