adj

• (of body parts) Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.
  "The penis should be fully erect before commencing copulation."
• (of a person) Having an erect penis or clitoris.
  "OK, baby, I'm erect now. Let's get it on!"
• (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
  "But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?"
• (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
  "His piercing Eyes, erect, appear to vievv / Superior VVorlds, and look all Nature thro'."

verb

• (transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
  "to erect a house or a fort"
• (transitive) To cause to stand up or out.
• To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
  "As soon as electrical power was restored, the attitude indicators' gyros would have begun to erect."
• (transitive) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
  "that didst his state above his hopes erect"