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.