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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin surrectus (“arisen”), the perfect passive participle of surgō (“I arise”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
surrect (comparative more surrect, superlative most surrect)
- (obsolescent, rare) upright
- 1692 July 17th, Leonard Plukenet, Letter to John Ray, point 19, in Philoſophical Letters Between the Late Learned Mr. Ray and Several of His Ingenious Correſpondents, Natives and Foreigners (1718), ed. William Derham, pages 248–9:
- My Polygonum minus procumbens niveum Glaucis exiguæ fol. is undoubtedly the Polygala repens nuperor. Lob. and I believe the Polygonum minus candicans ſupinum of Dr. Magnol, tho’ he upon Miſtake applies it to the Paronychia Hiſpanica Clus. which is a more ſurrect plant.
- 2010 October 5th, “Maurice (rep)” (username), “Re: MOS Advise on Sederea japonica” in MOS_ManhattanOrchidSociety, Usenet:
- Mounting takes care of the water in the crown, maybe the pot can lay on its side after watering or all the time? // I also believe that Jim is correct and that the plant requires more than Phal light. I have owned several, but my surrect one is in my care for over 18 months and it is mounted and 12 inches below my lights.
References
- NED IX:ii (Su–Th; 1st ed., 1919), § 1 (Su–Szmikite), page 243/3, “† Surrect, a.”
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