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verb

Erect v. t. (past & past part. erected; pres. part. 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." "I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge."

4.

To animate; to encourage; to cheer. "It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance."

5.

To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like. "To erect conclusions." "Malebranche erects this proposition."

6.

To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute. "To erect a new commonwealth."

Erecting shop (Mach.), a place where large machines, as engines, are put together and adjusted.

Synonyms: To set up; raise; elevate; construct; build; institute; establish; found.

Erect v. i. To rise upright. (Obs.) "By wet, stalks do erect."

noun

erecting n. The act of building or putting up.

Synonyms: erection.

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Etymology of 'Erecting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... now and then of England. Portraits of wives, children, and sweethearts were over the beds; there was no lack of footballs, and the British and Belgians play football practically every day after the daily work of reclaiming the land, erecting new huts, making new roads, and looking after the farms and market gardens has ...

— The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War • D. Thomas Curtin

... face: "This tomb has been erected by the aid of pious offerings from the entire universe to the blessed memory of the great servant of Our Lady of Lourdes." On the right side were these words from a Brief of Pope Pius IX.: "You have entirely devoted yourself to erecting a temple to the Mother of God." And on the left were these words from the New Testament: "Happy are they who suffer persecution for justice' sake." Did not these inscriptions embody the true plaint, the legitimate hope of the vanquished man who had fought so long in the sole ...

— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola

... present Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, first known as Union Bethel, was begun by John W. Stevenson, who was transferred from the New Jersey Conference and appointed by Bishop D. A. Payne for the specific purpose of erecting the new building. He entered upon his work with great zeal and alacrity, but pursued methods which, though adapted to or suitable in the localities in which he had hitherto labored with such phenomenal success, occasioned much friction and disgust in Washington. He ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 • Various

... the Huguenots were granted. The alleged concessions may not strike us as very extraordinary. They consisted chiefly in disarming the Roman Catholics equally with the adherents of the opposite creed, and in erecting a new chamber in parliament to try impartially cases in dispute between the adherents of the two communions.[272] This was certainly decreeing but a small measure of the equality in the eye of the law which the Protestants might claim as a natural and indefeasible right. The citizens ...

— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird

... and swallows. Within this rocky honeycomb— "cette ville en monolithe," as it has been aptly called, for it is literally scooped out of one mountain block—live a few poor people, foddering their wretched goats at carved piscina and stately sideboards, erecting their mud-beplastered hovels in the halls of feudal princes. From Les Baux road to Fontvieille, 7m.; whence rail to Mont-Majour and Arles (see ...

— The South of France--East Half • Charles Bertram Black

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