Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Setting upright; raising.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Making
erect orupright ; raising.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The only thing that'll be shrinking in days to come is Stephen Taylor's MASSIVE erective capacity for blogging sycophancy, as the RepubliCons get the public whipping they deserve.
Oh, for fuck's sake, Stephen! CC 2008
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Orpheus, lib. de lapidibus, and Plinius, libro ultimo, it hath an erective virtue and comfortative of the natural member.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Orpheus, lib. de lapidibus, and Plinius, libro ultimo, it hath an erective virtue and comfortative of the natural member.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Plinius, libro ultimo, it hath an erective virtue and comfortative of the natural member.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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It was also said to have corrected erective dysfunctions noticed in those victims.
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It was also said to have corrected erective dysfunctions noticed in those victims.
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