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Bible Dictionaries
Erect
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(a.) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
(2):
(v. t.) 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.
(3):
(v. t.) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
(4):
(v. t.) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like.
(5):
(a.) Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached.
(6):
(v. i.) To rise upright.
(7):
(a.) Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.
(8):
(v. t.) 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.
(9):
(v. t.) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
(10):
(v. t.) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
(11):
(a.) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
(12):
(a.) Watchful; alert.
(13):
(a.) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Erect'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/e/erect.html. 1828.
