Definition of "erect"

erect¹

/ɪˈɹɛkt/

adjective
comparative more erect, superlative most erect
1. Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
  Quotations
  Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect—a column in a scene of ruins.
  1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter LXIV, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume VI, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […]
2. (of body parts) Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.
3. (of a person) Having an erect penis.
4. (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
  Quotations
  But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?
  1827, [John Keble], The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […]
5. (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
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  His piercing Eyes, erect, appear to vievv / Superior VVorlds, and look all Nature thro'.
  1715, [Alexander] Pope, The Temple of Fame: A Vision, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], page 23
6. Watchful; alert.
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  vigilant and erect attention of mind
  1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, (please specify the page)
7. (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.

erect²

/ɪˈɹɛkt/

verb
third-person singular simple present erects, present participle erecting, simple past and past participle erected
1. (transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
2. (transitive) To cause to stand up or out.
3. To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
  1. (intransitive, aviation, of a gyroscopic attitude indicator) To spin up and align to vertical.
4. (transitive) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
  Quotations
  that didst his state above his hopes erect
  1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson
  I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.
  1700, [John] Dryden, Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
5. (transitive) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
  Quotations
  It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.
  a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of Contentment”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831
6. (transitive, astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
  Quotations
  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.
  1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 332
7. (intransitive) To enter a state of physiological erection.
  Quotations
  On the 17th of July, the patient returned to the country, perfectly healed: the penis erected and he was capable of coition.
  1828, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, page 113
  On an adequate stimulus the penis erected, the testes were drawn up, and the dartos muscle slowly contracted.
  1917, Brain: A Journal of Neurology, page 292
  His black dick erected with a long bend.
  2008 September 15, Naval Ahmed, Blue Moon On Bandideau, Lulu.com, page 234
  When the penis erects, blood pours into what erectile tissue there is and enlarges the penis somewhat, but by making it turgid, the S-shaped bend is straightened out and the penis extends.
  2012 July 12, Tim Glover, Mating Males: An Evolutionary Perspective on Mammalian Reproduction, Cambridge University Press, page 126
8. (transitive) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
  Quotations
  from fallacious foundations, and misapprehended mediums, erecting conclusions no way inferrible from their premises
  1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […]
  Malebranche erects this proposition.
  a. 1705, John Locke, “An Examination of P[ère] Malebranche’s Opinion of Seeing All Things in God”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706
9. (transitive) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
  Quotations
  to erect a new commonwealth
  1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, (please specify the page)
  In 1686, he was appointed one of the Commissioners in the new ecclesiastical commission erected by King James, and was proud of that honour.
  1812, Arthur Collins & Sir Egerton Brydges, Peerage of England, F.C. and J. Rivington et al, page 330

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