erect
verbEtymology From Middle English erecten, from the adjective (see above).
10 senses
- 1To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
- 2To cause to stand up or out.
- 3To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular…
- 4To spin up and align to vertical.
- 5To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
- 6To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
- 7To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
- 8To enter a state of physiological erection.
- 9To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
- 10To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
1
To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
- to erect a house or a fort
2
To cause to stand up or out.
3
To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
- to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.
4
Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Of a gyroscopic attitude indicator To spin up and align to vertical.
- As soon as electrical power was restored, the attitude indicators' gyros would have begun to erect.
5
To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
- that didst his state above his hopes erect1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
- , Preface I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.
6
To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
- It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number)”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
7
Astrology, Human sciences, Mysticism, Philosophy, Sciences To 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.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 332:
8
To 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.1828, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, page 113:
- On an adequate stimulus the penis erected, the testes were drawn up, and the dartos muscle slowly contracted.1917, Brain: A Journal of Neurology, page 292:
2 more examples
- His black dick erected with a long bend.2008 September 15, Naval Ahmed, Blue Moon On Bandideau, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 234:
- 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.2012 July 12, Tim Glover, Mating Males: An Evolutionary Perspective on Mammalian Reproduction, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 126:
9
To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
- from fallacious foundations, and misapprehended mediums, erecting conclusions no way inferrible from their premises1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC:
- Malebranche erects this proposition.a. 1705, John Locke, “An Examination of P[ère] Malebranche’s Opinion of Seeing All Things in God”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC:
10
To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
- to erect a new commonwealth[1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- In 1686, he was appointed one of the Commissioners in the new ecclesiastical commission erected by King James, and was proud of that honour.1812, Arthur Collins & Sir Egerton Brydges, Peerage of England, F.C. and J. Rivington et al, page 330
- Synonyms
- build
- Derived terms
- erectable, erecter, erecting shop, erective, nonerecting, piloerect, preerected, re-erect, reerect, unerected