erectとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English erect, a borrowing from Latin ērectus (“upright”), past participle of ērigō (“raise, set up”), from ē- (“out”) + regō (“to direct, keep straight, guide”).

形容詞

erect (comparative more erect, superlative most erect)

1. Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.

   • Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect — a column in a scene of ruins.

   • 1789, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 6, chapter 64.
2. Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly.
3. (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
   • (Can we date this quote by Keble かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?

4. (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
   • 1715, Alexander Pope, The Temple of Fame:

     His piercing eyes, erect, appear to view / Superior worlds, and look all nature through.

5. Watchful; alert.
   • (Can we date this quote by Hooker かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     vigilant and erect attention of mind

6. (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.

反意語

• (rigid; standing out perpendicularly): flaccid

派生語

• erectable
• semierect

関連する語

• erectile
• erection
• erigible

語源 2

From Middle English erecten, from the adjective (see above).

動詞

erect (三人称単数 現在形 erects, 現在分詞 erecting, 過去形および過去分詞形 erected)

1. (transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.

   to erect a house or a fort

2. (transitive) To cause to stand up or out.
3. To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.

   to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.

4. To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
   • (Can we date this quote by Daniel かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     that didst his state above his hopes erect

   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.

5. To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
   • (Can we date this quote by Barrow かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.

6. (astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 332:

     In 1581 Parliament made it a statutory felony to erect figures, cast nativities, or calculate by prophecy how long the Queen would live or who would succeed her.

7. To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
   • (Can we date this quote by Sir Thomas Browne かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     to erect conclusions.

   • (Can we date this quote by John Locke かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Malebranche erects this proposition.

8. To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
   • (Can we date this quote by Hooker かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     to erect a new commonwealth

   • 1812, Arthur Collins & Sir Egerton Brydges, Peerage of England, F.C. and J. Rivington et al, page 330:

     In 1686, he was appointed one of the Commissioners in the new ecclesiastical commission erected by King James, and was proud of that honour.

同意語

• build

派生語

• erecting shop
• re-erect, reerect

アナグラム

• -crete, Crete, recte, terce