KJV Dictionary Definition: waken

waken

WAKEN, v.i. wakn. To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.

Early Turnus wakning with the light.

WAKEN, v.t. wakn.

1. To excite or rouse from sleep.

Go, waken Eve.

2. To excite to action or motion.

Then Homers and Tyraeus martial muse wakend the world.

3. To excite; to produce; to rouse into action.

They introduce their sacred song, and waken raptures high.

wakened

WAKENED, pp. Roused from sleep; excited into action.

wakener

WAKENER, n. One who rouses from sleep.

wakening

WAKENING, ppr. Rousing form sleep or stupidity; calling into action.