Hypertext Webster Gateway: "awoke"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Awake \A*wake"\, v. t. [imp. {Awoke}, {Awaked}; p. p. {Awaked};
(Obs.) {Awaken}, {Awoken}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Awaking}. The
form {Awoke} is sometimes used as a p. p.] [AS.
[=a]w[ae]cnan, v. i. (imp. aw[=o]c), and [=a]wacian, v. i.
(imp. awacode). See {Awaken}, {Wake}.]
1. To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.

Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her.
--Tennyson.

And his disciples came to him, and awoke him,
saying, Lord, save us; we perish. --Matt. viii.
25.

2. To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death,
stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new
life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the
dormant faculties.

I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie.
--Goldsmith.

It way awake my bounty further. --Shak.

No sunny gleam awakes the trees. --Keble.


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