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Definition of Erects
Erect Erect E*rect", 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. ``To erect conclusions.' --Sir T. Browne.
``Malebranche erects this proposition.' --Locke.
6. To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
``To erect a new commonwealth.' --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.
Erect Erect E*rect", v. i.
To rise upright. [Obs.]
By wet, stalks do erect. --Bacon.
