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Milton, P. L., ii. 986. There came out from the niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head. Poe, Tales, I. 352. 2. To raise, building; build; construct: as, to erect a house or a temple; to erect a fort. Inscriptions round the bases of the pillars inform us that the hall was erected by Darius and Xerxes, but repaired or restored by Artaxerxes Mnemon, who added the inscriptions. J. Fergu on, Hist. Arch., I. 200. 3. To set up or establish; found; form; frame: as, to erect a kingdom or commonwealth; to erect a new system or theory. There has been more religious wholesome laws In the half-circle of a year erected For common good than memory e'er knew of. Middle ton , Chaste Maid, ii. 1. He had drawn above twenty persons to his opinion, and they were intended to erect a plantation about the Narragansett Bay. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 209.