EREC'TION, noun 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.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI