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▪ I. † rect, a. Obs. rare.
[ad. L. rect-us straight.]
a. Direct.b. Erect, straight.
c. Right (angle).
d. fig. Upright.
a.1393Langl. P. Pl. C. iv. 336 Thus ys mede and mercede as two manere relacions, Rect and indyrect. Ibid. 357 Man ys relatif rect yf he be ryht trewe.
b.1557Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 156 Running my race as rect vpright: Till teares of truth appease my plight.
c.1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. iv. Columnes 200 Th' acute, and the rect Angles too, Stride not so wide as obtuse Angles doe.
d.1890E. Johnson Rise Christendom 102 A rect and good and great soul, what is this but God sojourning in the body of man?
Hence ˈrectly adv., directly. rare—1.
1922Joyce Ulysses 208 Swiftly rectly creaking rectly rectly he was rectly gone.
▪ II. † rect, v. Obs. rare.
Aphetic f. erect v.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) V. 153 The sepulcre, whiche was lefte in the see, recte [L. erexit] hit selfe with the erthe, and was made an yle. 1638Heywood Wise Woman ii. i. Wks. 1874 V. 292 Mistris Mary on the Banke-side, is for recting a Figure. |