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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Erect \E*rect"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Erected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Erecting}.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
That didst his state above his hopes erect. --Daniel.
I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge. --Dryden.
4. To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance. --Barrow.
5. To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like. ''To erect conclusions.'' --Sir T. Browne. ''Malebranche erects this proposition.'' --Locke.
6. To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute. ''To erect a new commonwealth.'' --Hooker.
{Erecting shop} (Mach.), a place where large machines, as engines, are put together and adjusted.
Syn: To set up; raise; elevate; construct; build; institute; establish; found.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
erecting \erecting\ n. the act of building or putting up.
Syn: erection. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
erecting
noun: the act of building or putting up [syn: {erection}]
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