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erected, ppl. a.|ɪˈrɛktɪd|
[f. erect v. + -ed1.]
†1. Having an upward direction. Of the eyes, face, etc.: Uplifted. Of motion: Directed upwards. fig. Of the mind: Active, attentive. Obs.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 26 Our erected wit, maketh vs know what perfection is. 1593Drayton Eclog. x. 26 Th' erected eyes (Of a poore Wretch with miseries opprest). 1659Instruc. Oratory 16 He..proceeds to a new subject with a more erected attention. 1668Clarendon Ess. Tracts (1727) 92 An erected face toward heaven. 1682Southerne Loyal Bro. i. i, My erected head was rais'd to give A fuller majesty to crowns. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 499 Herons..mounting upward with erected Flight.
†2. Elevated, exalted; aspiring, high-souled, noble. Obs.
1580Sidney Arcadia i. (T.) High erected thoughts seated in a heart of courtesy. 1601Cornwallyes Disc. Seneca (1631) 68 Men of the highest erected states have dyed. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xx. (1632) 963 [They] march with erected courages against King Henry. 1631T. May tr. Barclay's Mirr. Mindes ii. 65 Pride adorned with the name of an erected manly nature. 1667Milton P.L. i. 679 Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell.
3.
†a. Set upright, or in a perpendicular position.
b. Of hair, etc.: Bristling. Of ears: Pricked up.
1603B. Jonson Entertainm. Jas. I Wks. (1838) 530/2 This erected and broad-spreading tree. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xv. (1611) 138 A sleeping lion which did not shew his rage with his erected Shagge. 1663J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) 165 The falling of an erected Staff this way or that. 1675Dryden Arungz. v. i. 2566 The Golden Serpents bear Erected Crests alike. 1707E. Ward Hud. Rediv. (1715) I. ix, The Teacher..Rose from his Seat, and stood erected. 1782Cowper Charity 516 'Tis called a satire, and the World appears Gathering around it, with erected ears.
4. Built up; up-reared. Also fig. of a kingdom: Established.
1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 29 The disquieting of the state of that new erected kingdom. 1625S. D'Ewes in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 322 III. 218 Going from this erected stage downe into St. Edwards Chappel. 1880Daily Tel. 30 Apr., An erected bridge is subjected to great lateral pressure.
5. See erect v. 9. also 10.
1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law 229 Having by their grants the same title to the erected benefices, that the monasteries had formerly. |