To animate; to encourage; to cheer.

To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises,
or the like.

Standing upright, with reference to the earth’s surface, or
to the surface to which it is attached.

To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.

To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular
position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a
monument, etc.

Watchful; alert.

Directed upward; raised; uplifted.

Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not
leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.

Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.

To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to
erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts
of, as of a machine.