[f. ERECT v. + -ING1.]
1. The action of the vb. ERECT, in various senses.
1553. T. Wilson, Rhet. (1567), 23 b. No buildyng of pillers, no erecting of arches.
1649. Selden, Laws Eng., I. (1739), 22. It seemeth to be done … after the erecting of the Bishoprick of Ely.
1776. G. Semple, Building in Water, 67. A judicious erecting of the Sounding-boards.
2. attrib., as in erecting-eye-piece, -glass, -prism: (see quots.)
1837. Goring & Pritchard, Microgr., 144. No achromatic erecting eye-piece … can be made with so few as three lenses.
1874. Knight, Dict. Mech., Erecting eye-piece, a combination of four lenses used for terrestrial telescopes, and so arranged as to exhibit the objects viewed in an erect position. Ibid., Erecting-glass, a tube with two lenses, slipped into the inner end of the draw-tube of a microscope, serving to erect the inverted image. Ibid., Erecting-prism, a contrivance of Nachet’s for erecting the inverted image produced by a compound microscope, by means of a single rectangular prism placed over the eye-piece.
¶ Used gerundially with omission of in, a.
1654. Earl Orrery, Parthenissa (1676), 562. She was ignorant of that fatal Theater which was erecting within sight of her Window.
1809. Kendall, Trav., II. lii. 216. One or two small salt-works are erecting in New Bedford.
