Word Meanings - ERECTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In an erect manner or posture.

Related words: (words related to ERECTLY)

• ERECTILITY
  The quality or state of being erectile.
• ERECTIVE
  Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• POSTURE
  1. The position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; especially , the position of a figure with regard to the several principal members by which action
• ERECTO-PATENT
  Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.
• ERECTLY
  In an erect manner or posture.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• ERECTOR
  A muscle which raises any part. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, erects.
• ERECTNESS
  Uprightness of posture or form.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• ERECTER
  An erector; one who raises or builds.
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• ERECTABLE
  Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather. Col. G. Montagu.
• ERECTION
  The state of a part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue. (more info) 1. The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall,
• POSTURER
  One who postures.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• ERECTILE
  Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated. Erectile tissue , a tissue which is capable of being greatly dilated and made rigid by the distension of the numerous blood vessels which it contains.
• ERECT
  Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached. (more info) 1. Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect. Two of far nobler shape,
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• SELF-IMPOSTURE
  Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit. South.
• COMPOSTURE
  Manure; compost. Shak.
• PREERECT
  To erect beforehand.
• REERECT
  To erect again.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• IMPOSTURE
  The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating. From new legends And fill the world with follies and impostures. Johnson. Syn. -- Cheat; fraud; trick; imposition; delusion.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• IMPOSTURED
  Done by imposture.
• EXPOSTURE
  Exposure. Shak.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.