The act of raising and setting perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; a setting upright.

The act of raising or building, as an edifice or fortification; as the erection of a wall, or of a house.

The state of being raised, built or elevated.

Establishment; settlement; formation; as the erection of a commonwealth, or of a new system; the erection of a bishop-rick or an earldom.' .

Elevation; exaltation of sentiments. Her peerless height my mind to high erection draws up.

Act of rousing; excitement; as the erection of the spirits.

Any thing erected; a building of any kind.

Distension and extension.