Erect(a.) Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.
Erect(a.) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
Erect(a.) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
Erect(a.) Watchful; alert.
Erect(a.) Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached.
Erect(a.) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
Erect(v. i.) To rise upright.
Erect(v. t.) 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.
Erect(v. t.) 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.
Erect(v. t.) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
Erect(v. t.) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
Erect(v. t.) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like.
Erect(v. t.) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
Erectable(a.) Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather.
Erected(imp. & p. p.) of Erect
Erecter(n.) An erector; one who raises or builds.
Erecting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Erect
Erection(n.) The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage.
Erection(n.) The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes.
Erection(n.) State of being stretched to stiffness; tension.
Erection(n.) Anything erected; a building of any kind.
Erection(n.) The state of a part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue.
Erective(a.) Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect.
Erectly(adv.) In an erect manner or posture.
Erectness(n.) Uprightness of posture or form.
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