erect

adj

/ɪˈɹɛkt/

Etymology

From Middle English erect, a borrowing from Latin ērectus (“upright”), past participle of ērigō (“raise, set up”), from ē- (“out”) + regō (“to direct, keep straight, guide”).

derived from ērectus — “upright”
inherited from erect

Definitions

1
Upright
Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
- Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect—a column in a scene of ruins.
2
Rigid, firm
Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.
- The penis should be fully erect before commencing copulation.
- erect nipples
3
Having an erect penis or clitoris.
- OK, baby, I'm erect now. Let's get it on!
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1. 4
  Bold
  Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
  - But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?
2. 5
  Directed upward
  Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
  - His piercing Eyes, erect, appear to vievv / Superior VVorlds, and look all Nature thro'.
3. 6
  Watchful
  Watchful; alert.
  - vigilant and erect attention of mind
4. Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
5. 8
  To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
  - to erect a house or a fort
6. To cause to stand up or out.
7. 10
  To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position
  To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
  - to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.
8. 11
  To lift up
  To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
  - that didst his state above his hopes erect
  - , Preface I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.
9. 12
  To animate
  To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
  - It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.
10. 13
  To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
  - In 1581 Parliament made it a statutory felony to erect figures, cast nativities, or calculate by prophecy how long the Queen would live or who would succeed her.
11. 14
  To enter a state of physiological erection.
  - On the 17th of July, the patient returned to the country, perfectly healed: the penis erected and he was capable of coition.
  - On an adequate stimulus the penis erected, the testes were drawn up, and the dartos muscle slowly contracted.
  - His black dick erected with a long bend.
12. 15
  To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
  - from fallacious foundations, and misapprehended mediums, erecting conclusions no way inferrible from their premises
  - Malebranche erects this proposition.
13. 16
  To set up or establish
  To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
  - to erect a new commonwealth
  - In 1686, he was appointed one of the Commissioners in the new ecclesiastical commission erected by King James, and was proud of that honour.

The neighborhood

synonymbuild
antonymflaccidantonym(s) of “rigid, standing out perpendicularly”
neighborerect-crested penguin
neighborerectile
neighborerection
neighborerigible

Derived

erectly, erectness, erectogenic, erectopatent, erectophile, inerect, nonerect, semierect, suberect, unerect, erectable, erecter, erecting shop, erective, nonerecting, piloerect, preerected, re-erect, reerect, unerected

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at erect. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at erect. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at erect

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA