Verb

(creat)

To put into existence.

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To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.

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To be creative, imaginative.

To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace.

To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or restored for the incumbent.

To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre?existent title (notably a church in Rome).

Verb

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 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.

To animate; to encourage; to cheer.

* Barrow

It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.

(astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).

* 1971 , , 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.

To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.

* Sir Thomas Browne

to erect conclusions.

* John Locke

Malebranche erects this proposition.

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

* Hooker

to erect a new commonwealth