arrect

English

Etymology

See aret.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹɛkt/

Verb

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

1. (transitive, obsolete) 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. (transitive, obsolete) 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)

1. (obsolete) Lifted up; raised; erect.
2. (obsolete) 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.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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