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Swift, Gulliver's Travels, iii. 4. 4. To raise from a lower level or condition to a higher; elevate; exalt; lift up. This King [Henry II.] founded the Church of Bristol, which K. Henry the Eighth afterward erected into a Cathedral. Baker , Chronicles, p. 58. I am far from pretending to infallibility; that would be to erect myself into an apostle. Locke, On the Epistles of St. Paul. When it [Palestine) was in po e ion of the Israeli tes, it was erected kingdom Saul.