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eright

eright

See also: e-right

English

Verb

eright ‎(third-person singular simple present erights, present participle erighting, simple past and past participle erighted)

  1. (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.

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.

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