Verb

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(erect)

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

Verb

(lb) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.

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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

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To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.

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(lb) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.

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(lb) To establish a basis for (something).

(lb) To form by combining materials or parts.

(lb) To develop in magnitude or extent.