arrect

present singular third person arrects · participle present arrecting · participle past arrected · past arrected

1. obsoletetransitiveTo direct.

   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.

   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

2. obsoletetransitiveTo impute.

   1532-1533, Thomas More, Confutation Therfore he arrecteth no blame of theyr dedes unto them.

comparative more arrect · superlative most arrect

1. obsoletetransitiveLifted up; raised; erect.
2. obsoletetransitiveAttentive, like a person listening.

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

   a. 1719, George Smalridge, On Hearing the Word of God

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   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.

   1774, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination