Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Dawned"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dawn \Dawn\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dawned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Dawning}.] [OE. dawnen, dawen, dagen, daien, AS. dagian to
become day, to dawn, fr. d[ae]g day; akin to D. dagen, G.
tagen, Icel. daga, Dan. dages, Sw. dagas. See {Day}.
[root]71.]
1. To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to
break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning
dawns.
In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn
toward the first day of the week, came Mary
Magdalene . . . to see the sepulcher. --Matt.
xxviii. 1.
2. To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
``In dawning youth.'' --Dryden.
When life awakes, and dawns at every line. --Pope.
Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid. --Heber,
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