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erection|ɪˈrɛkʃən|
Also 6 ereccion.
[ad. late L. ērectiōn-em, n. of action f. ērect-: see erect v. Cf. F. érection.]
The action of erecting, the condition of being erected.
†1. A lifting up (of the hands); also, an elevated condition; (of hills) elevation, altitude.
1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xv. xxiv. 371 There must be erection of hands, confession. 1612Brerewood Lang. & Relig. xiii. 138 We are not to consider only the erection of the hils. a1649Winthrop New Eng. (1853) I. 136 The congregation testifying their consent by erection of hands. 1692Ray Dissol. World iii. (1732) 32.
†2. Advancement in condition or dignity; elevation to office. Obs.
1503–4Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 26 The seid Ereccion and Creacion to the Kinges seid sone made to hym as to the Duke of Yorke. 1528in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. xxiii. 46 Synnes his erection to this dignitie, his Holynes, etc. 1661Ussher Power Princes i. (1683) 47 God..knoweth when and in what place to appoint the Erection of Kings.
b. concr. in Sc. Law. A temporal lordship ‘erected’ out of a spiritual benefice.
1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 244 That all the superiorities of erections..should be declared to be in the crown.
3. A setting upright; an upright position.
1622Sparrow Bk. Com. Prayer (1661) 39 By the erection of our bodies, expressing the elevation..of our souls. 1691Ray Creation (1714) 221 Of this Erection of the body of Man the ancients have taken notice. 1855Bain Senses & Int. ii. i. §7. (1864) 86 The erections and bendings of the body are outlets for spontaneous activity.
4. Phys. The action of making rigid any bodily organ containing erectile tissue; the condition of being so erected; also, an instance of the same.
1594Plat Jewell-ho. i. 18 As to woorke an erection of those engendring parts. 1607Shakes. Timon iv. iii. 164 That your Actiuity may defeate and quell The sourse of all Erection. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 216 Which serve the erection to Coition. 1658J. Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 1004 They are good for such as want erection. 1787H. Watson in Med. Commun. II. 158 His penis was in a state of erection. 1885Law Rep. Appeal X. 176 The appellant had an erection on each of two unsuccessful attempts.
†5. Exaltation, excitement, invigoration (of the mind, spirits, etc.). Obs.
1580Sidney Arcadia i. (1590) 88 a, Her peereles height my minde to high erection Drawes up. 1626Bacon Sylva (1631) §713 When a Man would listen suddenly to any Thing, he Starteth; For the Starting is an Erection of the Spirits to attend. 1651Clarendon Contempl. Ps. Tracts (1727) 542 It must be a wonderful erection of their spirits, to know that God will be a father of those fatherless.
6. The action of rearing (a building, column, etc.). Also fig.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. iii. 44 When we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the Erection. 1614Raleigh Hist. World (J.), Counting Seth to be an hundred years old at the erection of them [pillars]. 1664Power Exp. Philos. Pref. 20 In the erection of a more judicious and consistent Fabrick. 1786W. Thompson Watson's Philip III (1839) 337 Prohibiting the erection of all Protestant fabrics on lands belonging to the church. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 95 The erection of such mills is not to be recommended universally. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India III. 187 Their respect for his memory was evinced by the erection of a monumental column.
b. concr. That which is built up or reared; a building, structure. lit. and fig.
1609Manch. Crt. Leet Rec. (1885) II. 242 Two small erections latelye adjoyned to the houses called the red houses. 1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. 286 The English were driven to make such an erection upon a fable, or person fained. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 164 There is in Perthshire a barrow which seems to be a British erection. 1831Brewster Newton (1855) II. xxi. 253 It..is surmounted by a wooden erection said to have been Newton's private observatory.
7. Astrol. The construction of a scheme or figure of the heavens. Obs.
1610B. Jonson Alch. iv. iv, By erection of her figure, I gest it.
8. a. Constitution or establishment (of an office, institution, etc.). b. Investment with a specified condition.
1508Fisher Wks. 184 This mercyfull ereccion and buyldynge of crystes chirche. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. Scotl. (1587) 68/1 After the first erection of the Scotish Kingdome. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 506 Erection into life. 1701Bp. Atterbury Serm. (1740) I. vii. 255 From their [the Jews'] first Erection into a People, down to their final Excision. 1706tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 16th C. II. iv. iii. 406 The Bull of Erection [of Bishopricks] was despatched. 1796Burke Regic. Peace Wks. VIII. 187 Any capital innovation which may amount to the erection of a dangerous nuisance. 1863H. Cox Instit. i. x. 240 The statute..prohibits the erection of any such courts hereafter. 188510th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. 34 He consolidated his possessions by obtaining their erection into a barony. |