UPRIGHT Copy link • UPRIGHT 1. s. Uprights and crossbeams, tigna statuta et transversaria (Vitr.). 2. adj., rectus: erectus: Cels. et erectus: erectus et Cels. (e.g., status, Cic.). An upright position, status Cels. et erectus. To place upright, erigere: to remain upright, rectum assistere: to go or walk upright, erectum vadere, incedere: that cannot walk upright, quem femora destituunt: to keep or maintain upright, (a) PROP., sustinere: sustentare: An upright man, vir bonus, probus (a good man): vir vita innocens (innocent): homo antiqua virtute et fide; priscae probitatis et fidei exemplar; homo antiquis moribus; homo antiqui officii (all = a man of the good old stamp): a strictly upright man, homo gravis; vir gravissimae antiquitatis (Cic.): Vid: HONEST.