erect
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English erect, a borrowing from Latin ērectus (“upright”), past participle of ērigō (“raise, set up”), from ē- (“out”) + regō (“to direct, keep straight, guide”).
Adjective
[edit]erect (comparative more erect, superlative most erect)
- Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
- 1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter LXIV, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume VI, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:
- Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect—a column in a scene of ruins.
- (of body parts) Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.
- (of a person) Having an erect penis or clitoris.
- (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
- 1827, [John Keble], The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC:
- But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?
- (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
- 1715, [Alexander] Pope, The Temple of Fame: A Vision, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 23:
- His piercing Eyes, erect, appear to vievv / Superior VVorlds, and look all Nature thro'.
- Watchful; alert.
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- vigilant and erect attention of mind
- (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “rigid; standing out perpendicularly”): flaccid
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]vertical in position
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standing out perpendicularly
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having an erect penis
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English erecten, from the adjective (see above).
Verb
[edit]erect (third-person singular simple present erects, present participle erecting, simple past and past participle erected)
- (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.
- (intransitive, aviation, 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.
- (transitive) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
- 1595, 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:
- that didst his state above his hopes erect
- 1700, [John] Dryden, Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:, Preface
- I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.
- (transitive) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
- a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of Contentment”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
- It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.
- (transitive, astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 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.
- (intransitive) To enter a state of physiological erection.
- 1828, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, page 113:
- On the 17th of July, the patient returned to the country, perfectly healed: the penis erected and he was capable of coition.
- 1917, Brain: A Journal of Neurology, page 292:
- On an adequate stimulus the penis erected, the testes were drawn up, and the dartos muscle slowly contracted.
- 2008 September 15, Naval Ahmed, Blue Moon On Bandideau, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 234:
- His black dick erected with a long bend.
- 2012 July 12, Tim Glover, Mating Males: An Evolutionary Perspective on Mammalian Reproduction, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 126:
- 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.
- (transitive) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC:
- from fallacious foundations, and misapprehended mediums, erecting conclusions no way inferrible from their premises
- 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:
- Malebranche erects this proposition.
- (transitive) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- to erect a new commonwealth
- 1812, Arthur Collins & Sir Egerton Brydges, Peerage of England, F.C. and J. Rivington et al, page 330:
- In 1686, he was appointed one of the Commissioners in the new ecclesiastical commission erected by King James, and was proud of that honour.
Synonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to put up by the fitting together of materials or parts
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to cause to stand up or out
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to raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]erect m or n (feminine singular erectă, masculine plural erecți, feminine and neuter plural erecte)
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