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.
ERECT
E*rect", v. i.
Defn: To rise upright. [Obs.]
By wet, stalks do erect. Bacon.
ERECTABLE
E*rect"a*ble a.
Defn: Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather. Col. G.
Montagu.
ERECTER
E*rect"er, n.
Defn: An erector; one who raises or builds.