arrect

English

Etymology

From Latin arrēctus, perfect participle of arrigō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹɛkt/
• Homophone: erect (sometimes)

Verb

arrect (third-person singular simple present arrects, present participle arrecting, simple past and past participle arrected)(transitive, obsolete)

1. To direct.
   • 1523, John Skelton, A ryght delectable tratyse upon a goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 313, lines 53–56:

     Madame regent of the scyence sevyn
     To whos astate all noblenes most leven,
     My supplycacyon to you I arrect,
     Whereof I beseche you to tender the effecte.

2. To impute.
   • 1532-1533, Thomas More, Confutation

     Therfore he arrecteth no blame of theyr dedes unto them.

Adjective

arrect (comparative more arrect, superlative most arrect)(obsolete)

1. Lifted up; raised; erect.
2. Attentive, like a person listening.
   • a. 1719, George Smalridge, On Hearing the Word of God:

     God speaks not the idle and unconcerned hearer, but to the vigilant and arrect.

   • 1774, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination:

     At every solemn pause the croud recoil
     Gazing each other speechless, and congeal'd
     With shivering sighs: till eager for th' event,
     Around the beldame all arrect they hang,
     Each trembling heart with grateful terrors quell'd.

References

• “arrect”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Carter, Crater, carter, crater, tracer