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Word Meanings - ERECTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In an erect manner or posture.

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  • 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.

 

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