Erect
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛkt
Origin
From Latin Ä“rectus ("upright"), past participle of erigere ("raise, set up"), from e- ("up") + regere ("to direct, keep straight, guide").
Full definition of erect
Adjective
erect
- Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
- GibbonAmong the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect — a column of ruins.
- Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly.
- (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
- KebleBut who is he, by years
Bowed, but erect in heart? - (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
- Alexander PopeHis piercing eyes, erect, appear to view
Superior worlds, and look all nature through. - Watchful; alert.
- Hookervigilant and erect attention of mind
- (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
Antonyms
Verb
- (transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.to erect a house or a fort
- (transitive) To 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.
- To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
- Danielthat didst his state above his hopes erect
- DrydenI, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.
- To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
- BarrowIt raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.
- (astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 332: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.
- To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
- Sir Thomas Browneto erect conclusions.
- John LockeMalebranche erects this proposition.
- To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
- Hookerto erect a new commonwealth