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English
Etymology
From Middle English *irihten, *ȝerihten, from Middle English irihte, ȝerihte (“right”), from Old English ġerihte (“right, due, justice; religious rite, office”); or perhaps an alteration of aright (“to make right, put to rights, treat properly”), from Middle English arihten (“to raise up”). More at right.
Verb
eright (third-person singular simple present erights, present participle erighting, simple past and past participle erighted)
- (transitive) To invest with a right.
- 1908 (original 1556), John Heywood, John Stephen Farmer, The spider and the fly:
- To possession here any fly erighting, Then, without more words by mouth or enditing.
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