If you erect a system, a theory, or an institution, you create it. Japanese proprietors are erecting a complex infrastructure of political influence throughout America He erected a new doctrine of precedent
Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached
of sexual organs; stiff and rigid upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he sat bolt upright