A*wake" , a. [From awaken, old p. p. of awake.]
Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.
Before whom
awake I stood.
Milton.
She still beheld,
Now wide awake, the vision of
her sleep.
Keats.
He was awake to the danger.
Froude.
A*wake" (&?;), v. i. To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state
resembling sleep, as inaction or death.
The national spirit again awoke.
Freeman.
Awake to
righteousness, and sin not.
1 Cor. xv. 34.
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. āwæcnan, v. i. (imp. awōc), and āwacian, 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.
Hear it pronounced