Milton, On Def

of Humb. Remonst. 6t. To advance or set forth; propound. Male bran che erects this proposition. Locke . 7. To draw, as a figure, upon a base; construct, as a figure: as, to erect a horoscope; to erect a circle on a given line as a semidiameter; to erect a perpendicular to a line from a given point in the line.