EREC'TION, n. The act of raising and setting perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; a setting upright. 1. The act of raising or building, as an edifice or fortification; as the erection of a wall, or of a house.2. The state of being raised, built or elevated. 3. Establishment; settlement; formation; as the erection of a commonwealth, or of a new system; the erection of a bishop-rick or an earldom.4. Elevation; exaltation of sentiments.Her peerless height my mind to high erection draws up.5. Act of rousing; excitement; as the erection of the spirits.6. Any thing erected; a building of any kind.7. Distension and extension.
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