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  MAGDELAINE DE VERCHÈRES The First Girl Scout in the New World. From Statue erected by Lord Grey, near the site of Fort Verchères on the St. Lawrence
• WordNet 3.6
  • adj erect of sexual organs; stiff and rigid
  • adj erect upright in position or posture "an erect stature","erect flower stalks","for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression","a column still vertical amid the ruins","he sat bolt upright"
  • v erect construct, build, or erect "Raise a barn"
  • v erect cause to rise up
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• Interesting fact: The Hollywood sign was first erected in 1923. It was first erected as "Hollywoodland."
• • Erect Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed. "But who is he, by years
    Bowed, but erect in heart?"
  • Erect Directed upward; raised; uplifted. "His piercing eyes, erect , appear to view
    Superior worlds, and look all nature through."
  • Erect (Her) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
  • Erect (Bot) Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached.
  • Erect To animate; to encourage; to cheer. "It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance."
  • Erect 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."
  • Erect 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.
  • Erect 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.
  • v. i Erect To rise upright. "By wet, stalks do erect ."
  • Erect To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like. "To erect conclusions.""Malebranche erects this proposition."
  • Erect To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute. "To erect a new commonwealth."
  • Erect Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect . "Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall.""Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect a column of ruins."
  • Erect Watchful; alert. "Vigilant and erect attention of mind."
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• Interesting fact: Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half during sleep.
• • erect To raise and set in an upright or perpendicular position; set up; raise up: as, to erect a telegraph-pole or a flagstaff.
  • erect To raise, as a building; build; construct: as, to erect a house or a temple; to erect a fort.
  • erect To set up or establish; found; form; frame: as, to erect a kingdom or commonwealth; to erect a new system or theory.
  • erect To raise from a lower level or condition to a higher; elevate; exalt; lift up.
  • erect To animate; encourage.
  • erect To advance or set forth; propound.
  • erect To draw, as a figure, upon a base; construct, as a figure: as, to erect a horoscope; to erect a circle on a given line as a semidiameter; to erect a perpendicular to a line from a given point in the line.
  • erect Construct, build, institute, establish, plant.
  • erect Elevate. See raise.
  • erect To take an upright position; rise.
  • erect Having an upright posture; standing; directed upward; raised; uplifted.
  • erect Specifically— In heraldry, set vertically in some unusual way: thus, a boar's head charged with the muzzle or snout uppermost, pointing to the top of the field, is said to be erect.
  • erect In botany, vertical throughout; not spreading or declined; upright: as, an erect stem; an erect leaf or ovule.
  • erect In entomology, upright: applied to hairs, spines, etc., when they are nearly but not quite at right angles to the surface or margin on which they are situated. In this sense distinguished from perpendicular or vertical.
  • erect Hence Upright and firm; bold.
  • erect Intent; alert.
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• Interesting fact: Smoking makes it almost impossible for a male to have a natural erection and it shrinks the penis. It also reduces the mobility of sperm.
• • v.t Erect e-rekt′ to set upright: to raise: to build: to exalt: to establish
  • adj Erect upright: directed upward
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• Robert Green Ingersoll

  

  “He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.”
• Edwin P. Whipple

  

  “Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.”
• Linda Ronstadt

  

  “You have to erect a fence and say, Okay, scale this.”
• Jose Ortega Y Gasset

  

  “In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.”
• Remy De Gourmont

  

  “The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.”
• Zig Ziglar

  

  “There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.”

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