erectlyadv.
/ɪˈrɛktli/ In an erect manner or posture.In speaking of posture the sense is now commonly expressed by the adjective, as to walk erect.
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the world > space > relative position > vertical position > [adverb] > uprightly
upwardc1290
uprightsa1375
bolt uprightc1405
rect1557
uprightly1601
bolt up1638
erectly1646
up1669
the world > space > relative position > posture > upright or erect posture > [adverb]
uprightsa1375
branta1400
straight up1535
upon straightc1540
uprightly1601
erectly1646
streck up1790
aprick1856
the world > life > the body > hair > horripilation > [adverb]
erectly1808
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. i. 181 Birds..generally carry their heads erectly like man. View more context for this quotation
a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 99 Be not under any Brutal metempsychosis while thou livest, and walkest about erectly under the scheme of Man.
1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening xii. 184 A weak tree is helped much by training it more erectly than usual.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. vi. 225 A goat walking erectly on his hinder feet.
1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. xxxii. 110 The locks, that wont her brow to shade, Stared up erectly from her head.
1843 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 342 The Greeks were under disadvantages..yet they rose through them vigorously and erectly.
Compounds
erectly-spreading adj. Botany ‘between erect and spreading’
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1849 in J. Paxton Bot. Dict.
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