Emily Dickinson Lexicon

E-REC'TION, n.

1. The act of raising and setting perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; a setting upright.
2. The act of raising or building, as an edifice or fortification; as, the erection of a wall, or of a house.
3. The state of being raised, built or elevated.
4. Establishment; settlement; formation; as, the erection, of a commonwealth, or of a new system; the erection of a bishropic or an earldom.
5. Elevation; exaltation of sentiments. Her peerless light my mind to high erection draws up. Sidney.
6. Act of rousing; excitement; as, the erection of the spirits. Bacon.
7. Any thing erected; a building of any kind. O. Wolcott.
8. Distension and extension.