Definition of erect

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Erect (v. t.) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.

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Tope :: Tope (n.) A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic..
Tomb :: Tomb (n.) A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead.
Foundation :: Foundation (n.) The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect..
Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles..
Altar :: Altar (n.) A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity.
Stand :: Stand (n.) To measure when erect on the feet.
Erection :: Erection (n.) State of being stretched to stiffness; tension.
Rise :: Rise (v.) To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall..
Erector :: Erector (n.) An attachment to a microscope, telescope, or other optical instrument, for making the image erect instead of inverted..
Temple :: Temple (n.) Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church..
Proneness :: Proneness (n.) The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man..
Roebuck :: Roebuck (n.) A small European and Asiatic deer (Capreolus capraea) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit. This, the smallest European deer, is very nimble and graceful. It always prefers a mountainous country, or high grounds..
Erectness :: Erectness (n.) Uprightness of posture or form.
Fore-topmast :: Fore-topmast (n.) The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. See Ship..
Straight-spoken :: Straight-pight (a.) Straight in form or upright in position; erect.
Erect :: Erect (a.) Watchful; alert.
Oblique :: Oblique (a.) Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined..
Gnomon :: Gnomon (n.) A style or column erected perpendicularly to the horizon, formerly used in astronomocal observations. Its principal use was to find the altitude of the sun by measuring the length of its shadow..
Found :: Found (v. i.) To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family..
Preerect :: Preerect (v. t.) To erect beforehand.
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