exects English
Verb
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erects English
Verb
(head)
(erect)
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erect English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
* Gibbon
- Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect — a column of ruins.
Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly.
(obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
* Keble
- But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?
(obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
* Alexander Pope
- His piercing eyes, erect , appear to view / Superior worlds, and look all nature through.
Watchful; alert.
* Hooker
- vigilant and erect attention of mind
(heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
Antonyms
* flaccid
Derived terms
* erection
* semierect
Related terms
* erection
* erectile
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
Synonyms
* build
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