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<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.</def>

<h1>Erect</h1> <Xpage=506>

<hw>E*rect"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Erected</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Erecting</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; <as>as, to <ex>erect</ex> a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; <as>as, to <ex>erect</ex> a house or a fort</as>; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.</def>

<blockquote>That didst his state above his hopes <b>erect</b>. <i>Daniel.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I, who am a party, am not to <b>erect</b> myself into a judge. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To animate; to encourage; to cheer.</def>

<blockquote>It raiseth the dropping spirit, <b>erecting</b> it to a loving complaisance. <i>Barrow.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like.</def> "To <i>erect</i> conclusions." <i>Sir T. Browne</i>. "Malebranche <i>erects</i> this proposition."

<i>Locke.</i>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.</def> "To <i>erect</i> a new commonwealth."

<i>Hooker.</i>

<cs><col>Erecting shop</col> <fld>(Mach.)</fld>, <cd>a place where large machines, as engines, are put together and adjusted.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- To set up; raise; elevate; construct; build; institute; establish; found.</syn>

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<hw>E*rect"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To rise upright.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>By wet, stalks do <b>erect</b>. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Erectable</h1> <Xpage=506>

<hw>E*rect"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being erected; <as>as, an <ex>erectable</ex> feather</as>.</def>

<i>Col. G. Montagu.</i>

<h1>Erecter</h1> <Xpage=506>

<hw>E*rect"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An erector; one who raises or builds.</def>

<h1>Erectile</h1> <Xpage=506>

<hw>E*rect"ile</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>\'82rectile</ets>.]</ety> <def>Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated.</def>

<cs><col>Erectile tissue</col> <fld>(Anat.)</fld>, <cd>a tissue which is capable of being greatly dilated and made rigid by the distension of the numerous blood vessels which it contains.</cd></cs>

<h1>Erectility</h1> <Xpage=506>