Emily Dickinson Lexicon

E-RECT, v.t.

1. To raise and set in an upright or perpendicular direction, or nearly such; as, to erect a pole or flag-staff. To erect a perpendicular, is to set or form one line on another at right angles.
2. To raise, as a building; to set up; to build; as, to erect a house or temple; to erect a fort.
3. To set up or establish anew; to found; to form; as, to erect a kingdom or commonwealth; to erect a new system or theory.
4. To elevate; to exalt. I am far from pretending to infallibility; that would be to erect myself into an apostle. Locke.
5. To raise; to excite; to animate; to encourage. Why should not hope / As much erect our thoughts, as fear deject them? Denham.
6. To raise a consequence from premises. [Little used.] Malebranche erects this proposition. Locke.
7. To extend; to distend.