/ɪˈɹɛkt/
OriginFrom 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”).
- Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
“Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect—a column in a scene of ruins.”
- Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.
“The penis should be fully erect before commencing copulation.”
“erect nipples”
- Having an erect penis or clitoris.
“OK, baby, I'm erect now. Let's get it on!”
- obsoleteBold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
“But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?”
- obsoleteDirected upward; raised; uplifted.
“His piercing Eyes, erect, appear to vievv / Superior VVorlds, and look all Nature thro'.”
- Watchful; alert.
“vigilant and erect attention of mind”
- Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
- transitiveTo put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
“to erect a house or a fort”
- transitiveTo 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.”
- intransitiveTo spin up and align to vertical.
“As soon as electrical power was restored, the attitude indicators' gyros would have begun to erect.”
- transitiveTo lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
“that didst his state above his hopes erect”
“, Preface
I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.”
- transitiveTo animate; to encourage; to cheer.
“It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.”
- transitiveTo cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
“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.”
- intransitiveTo enter a state of physiological erection.
“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.”
- transitiveTo set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
“from fallacious foundations, and misapprehended mediums, erecting conclusions no way inferrible from their premises”
“Malebranche erects this proposition.”
- transitiveTo set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
“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.”
Formsmore erect(comparative) · most erect(superlative) · erects(present, singular, third-person) · erecting(participle, present) · erected(participle, past) · erected(past)
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