arrect

English

Etymology

See aret.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹekt/

Verb

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

1. (transitive, obsolete) To direct.
   • (Can we date this quote by Skelton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     My supplication to you I arrect.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To impute.
   • (Can we date this quote by Sir T. More and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Therfore he arrecteth no blame of theyr dedes unto them.

Adjective

arrect (comparative more arrect, superlative most arrect)

1. (obsolete) Lifted up; raised; erect.
2. (obsolete) Attentive, like a person listening.
   • (Can we date this quote by Smalridge and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “arrect”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Carter, Crater, carter, crater, tracer