Word Meanings - PREERECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To erect beforehand.

Related words: (words related to PREERECT)

• 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,
• ERECTILITY
  The quality or state of being erectile.
• ERECTIVE
  Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• ERECTO-PATENT
  Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.
• ERECTLY
  In an erect manner or posture.
• ERECTOR
  A muscle which raises any part. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, erects.
• ERECTNESS
  Uprightness of posture or form.
• ERECTER
  An erector; one who raises or builds.
• 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,
• 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.
• PREERECT
  To erect beforehand.
• REERECT
  To erect again.