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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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 From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: erecting n : the act of building or putting up [syn: {erection}]
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