▪ I. † rect, a. Obs. rare.
[ad. L. rect-us straight.]
a. Direct. b. Erect, straight. c. Right (angle). d. fig. Upright.
| a. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. iv. 336 Thus ys mede and mercede as two manere relacions, Rect and indyrect. Ibid. 357 Man ys relatif rect yf he be ryht trewe. |
| b. 1557 Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 156 Running my race as rect vpright: Till teares of truth appease my plight. |
| c. 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. iv. Columnes 200 Th' acute, and the rect Angles too, Stride not so wide as obtuse Angles doe. |
| d. 1890 E. Johnson Rise Christendom 102 A rect and good and great soul, what is this but God sojourning in the body of man? |
Hence
ˈrectly adv., directly.
rare—1.
| 1922 Joyce Ulysses 208 Swiftly rectly creaking rectly rectly he was rectly gone. |
▪ II. † rect, v. Obs. rare.
Aphetic
f. erect v.
| 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) V. 153 The sepulcre, whiche was lefte in the see, recte [L. erexit] hit selfe with the erthe, and was made an yle. 1638 Heywood Wise Woman ii. i. Wks. 1874 V. 292 Mistris Mary on the Banke-side, is for recting a Figure. |