† 1. Having an upward direction. Of the eyes, face, etc.: Uplifted. Of motion: Directed upwards. fig. Of the mind: Active, attentive. Obs.
1581. Sidney, Apol. Poetrie (Arb.), 26. Our erected wit, maketh vs know what perfection is.
1593. Drayton, Eclog., x. 26. Th’ erected eyes (Of a poore Wretch with miseries opprest).
1659. Instruc. Oratory, 16. He … proceeds to a new subject with a more erected attention.
1668. Clarendon, Ess., in Tracts (1727), 92. An erected Face toward Heaven.
1682. Southerne, Loyal Brother, I. i. My erected head was rais’d to give A fuller majesty to crowns.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., I. 499/64. Herons … mounting upward, with erected flight.
† 2. Elevated, exalted; aspiring, high-souled, noble. Obs.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia, I. (1590), 9 (T.). High erected thoughts seated in a harte of courtesie.
1601. Cornwallyes, Disc. Seneca (1631), 68. Men of the highest erected states have dyed.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xx. (1632), 963. [They] march with erected courages against King Henry.
1631. T. May, trans. Barclay’s Mirr. Mindes, ii. 65. Pride adorned with the name of an erected manly nature.
1667. Milton, P. L., I. 679. Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell.
3. † a. Set upright, or in a perpendicular position. b. Of hair, etc.: Bristling. Of ears: Pricked up.
1603. B. Jonson, Entertainm. Jas. I., Wks. (1838), 530/2. This erected and broad-spreading tree.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, III. xv. (1611), 138. A sleeping lion which did not shew his rage with his erected Shagge.
1663. J. Spencer, Prodigies (1665), 165. The falling of an erected Staff this way or that.
1675. Dryden, Aurengz., V. i. 2566. The Golden Serpents bear Erected Crests alike.
1707. E. Ward, Hud. Rediv. (1715), I. ix. The Teacher … Rose from his Seat, and stood erected.
1782. Cowper, Charity, 516. ’Tis called a satire, and the World appears Gathering around it, with erected ears.
4. Built up, up-reared. Also fig. of a kingdom: Established.
1603. Knolles, Hist. Turkes (1638), 29. The disquieting of the state of that new erected kingdom.
1625. S. D’Ewes, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., I. 322, III. 218. Going from this erected stage downe into St. Edwards Chappel.
1880. Daily Tel., 30 April. An erected bridge is subjected to great lateral pressure.
5. See ERECT v. 9. also 10.
1754. Erskine, Princ. Sc. Law, 229. Having by their grants the same title to the erected benefices, that the monasteries had formerly.
