WAKE
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Wake (?), n. [Originally, an open space of water s&unr_;rrounded by ice, and then, the passage cut through ice for a vessel, probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. v&ö;k a hole, opening in ice, Sw. vak, Dan. vaage, perhaps akin to E. humid.] The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
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This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions.
De Quincey.
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Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels.
Thackeray.
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Wake, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waked (?) or Woke (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Waking.] [AS. wacan, wacian; akin to OFries. waka, OS. wak&unr_;n, D. waken, G. wachen, OHG. wahh&unr_;n, Icel. vaka, Sw. vaken, Dan. vaage, Goth. wakan, v. i., uswakjan, v. t., Skr. v&ā;jay to rouse, to impel. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;. Cf. Vigil, Wait, v. i., Watch, v. i.]
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1. To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
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The father waketh for the daughter.
Ecclus. xlii. 9.
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Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps.
Milton.
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I can not think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
Locke.
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2. To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
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The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse,
Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.
Shak.
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3. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
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He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology.
G. Eliot.
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4. To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
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Gentle airs due at their hour
To fan the earth now waked.
Milton.
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Then wake, my soul, to high desires.
Keble.
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Wake (?), v. t. 1. To rouse from sleep; to awake.
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The angel . . . came again and waked me.
Zech. iv. 1.
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2. To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. “I shall waken all this company.” Chaucer.
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Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage.
Milton.
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Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm.
J. R. Green.
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3. To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
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To second life
Waked in the renovation of the just.
Milton.
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4. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
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Wake, n. 1. The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake. [Obs. or Poetic]
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Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep.
Shak.
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Singing her flatteries to my morning wake.
Dryden.
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2. The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
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The warlike wakes continued all the night,
And funeral games played at new returning light.
Dryden.
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The wood nymphs, decked with daises trim,
Their merry wakes and pastimes keep.
Milton.
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3. Specifically: (a) (Ch. of Eng.) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
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Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England.
Ld. Berners.
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And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer.
Drayton.
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(b) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish. “Blithe as shepherd at a wake.” Cowper.
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Wake play, the ceremonies and pastimes connected with a wake. See Wake, n., 3 (b), above. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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