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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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"Erecting" Quotes from Famous Books

... to know the will of heaven. At length, being convinced that these two holy men were led by the spirit of God, and that great advantages would accrue to the church from such an institute, he consented to their erecting a new religious order, and declared St. John the first general minister. The bishop of Paris, and the abbot of St. Victor, were ordered to draw up their rules, which the pope approved by a bull, in 1198. He ordered the religious to wear a white habit, with a red and blue ...

— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler

... of erecting it entirely for her and the baby. He spoke of closets for her frocks, and "a comfy sewing-room." But when he drew on a leaf from an old account-book (he was a paper-saver and a string-picker) the plans for the garage, he gave much more attention to a cement ...

— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis

... and the atrociously kept streets are amongst the most vociferous instances of this. It is one of the inexplicable mysteries of American civilisation that a young municipality,—or even, sometimes, an old one,—with a million dollars to spend, will choose to spend it in erecting a most unnecessarily gorgeous town-hall rather than in making the street in front of it passable for the ordinarily shod pedestrian. In New York itself the hilarious stockbroker returning at night to his ...

— The Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of His American Kin • James Fullarton Muirhead

... describing the antiquities of his neighbourhood in one of the Sussex Archaeological Society's volumes, writes magnanimously: "A debt of gratitude is certainly due to our Roman Catholic predecessors (whatever error might mix itself with their piety and charity) for erecting such noble edifices, in a style of strength to endure for a late posterity." It seems to me that a very simple way of discharging a portion of this debt would be to imitate the excellent habit of leaving the church doors wide open, as practised by those ...

— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas

... the British intelligence officers found out that the Reds were plotting a raid or a general attack. It was known that they had begun to augment their forces on our front. Sound of their axes had been as constant on the other side of No Man's Land as it had on our side. They were erecting blockhouses for the winter. Occasionally their airplanes exchanged visits with ours, always dropping a present for us. No casualties resulted from their bombs directed at us. Unfortunately one day our bombing plane mistook our front ...

— The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki - Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 • Joel R. Moore

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