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erectly

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e·rect  (-rkt)
adj.
1. Being in a vertical, upright position: an erect lily stalk; an erect posture.
2. Being in a stiff, rigid physiological condition.
3. Archaic Wide-awake; alert.
tr.v. e·rect·ed, e·rect·ing, e·rects
1. To construct by assembling: erect a skyscraper.
2. To raise to a rigid or upright condition.
3. To fix in an upright position.
4. To set up; establish: erect a dynasty.
5. Mathematics To construct (a perpendicular, for example) from or on a given base.

[Middle English, from Latin rctus, past participle of rigere, to set up : -, ex-, ex- + regere, to guide; see reg- in Indo-European roots.]

e·recta·ble adj.
e·rectly adv.
e·rectness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.erectly - in a straight-backed manner; "the old man still walks erectly"
Translations
erectly [ɪˈrektlɪ] ADVerguidamente
erectly
advaufrecht


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In an instant the yards swung round; and as the ship half-wheeled upon her heel, her three firm-seated graceful masts erectly poised upon her long, ribbed hull, seemed as the three Horatii pirouetting on one sufficient steed.
She always went by way of the swamp; it was a lovely place -- a boggy soil, green with the greenest of mossy hillocks; a silvery brook meandered through it and spruces stood erectly, their boughs a-trail with gray-green mosses, their roots overgrown with all sorts of woodland lovelinesses.
While they were waiting in the anteroom there entered from another apartment a young man uniformed similarly to the others with the exception that upon his head was a fillet of gold, in the front of which a single parrot feather rose erectly above his forehead.
 
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