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English Dictionary: erect	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
erect adj upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he sat bolt upright" Synonym(s): erect, vertical, upright Antonym(s): unerect of sexual organs; stiff and rigid Synonym(s): tumid, erect v construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn" [syn: raise, erect, rear, set up, put up] Antonym(s): dismantle, level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down cause to rise up Synonym(s): rear, erect
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Erect \Erect"\, a. [L. erectus, p. p. of erigere to erect; e out + regere to lead straight. See {Right}, and cf. {Alert}.] 1. Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect. Two of far nobler shape, erect* and tall. --Milton. Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect -- a column of ruins. --Gibbon. 2. Directed upward; raised; uplifted. His piercing eyes, erect, appear to view Superior worlds, and look all nature through. --Pope. 3. Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed. But who is he, by years Bowed, but erect in heart? --Keble. 4. Watchful; alert. Vigilant and erect attention of mind. --Hooker. 5. (Bot.) Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached. 6. (Her.) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Erect \E*rect"\, v. i. To rise upright. [Obs.] By wet, stalks do erect. --Bacon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Erect \Erect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Erected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Erecting}.] 1. To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect* a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc. 2. To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine. 3. To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify. That didst his state above his hopes erect. --Daniel. I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge. --Dryden. 4. To animate; to encourage; to cheer. It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance. --Barrow. 5. To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like. [bd]To erect conclusions.[b8] --Sir T. Browne. [bd]Malebranche erects this proposition.[b8] --Locke. 6. To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute. [bd]To erect a new commonwealth.[b8] --Hooker. {Erecting shop} (Mach.), a place where large machines, as engines, are put together and adjusted. Syn: To set up; raise; elevate; construct; build; institute; establish; found.