Awake | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

A-wāke', v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. AWOKE, AWAKED; p. p. AWAKED; p. pr. & vb. n. AWAKING.] [Prefix a and awake, q. v. A-S. awacian, aweccan.]

Sense 1. To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.

I go that I may awake him out of sleep. John xi. 11.

Sense 2. To arouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity, or inaction; to put into action, or new life; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties. “Reluctant flames, the sign of wrath awaked.” Milton.

It may awake my bounty further. Shak.

A-wāke′, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as out of inaction or death. Awake to righteousness. 1 Cor. xv. 34.

A-wāke', a.

adjective

a. Not sleeping; in a state of vigilance or action.

Before whom awake I stood. Milton.