The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and
the swaggering upspring reels.
Shak.
3. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to
cease to sleep; — often with up.
He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology.
G. Eliot.
4. To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid,
or inactive state; to be active.
Gentle airs due at their hour To fan the earth now waked.
Milton.
Then wake, my soul, to high desires.
Keble.
Wake (?), v. t. 1. To rouse from sleep; to awake.
The angel . . . came again and waked me.
Zech. iv. 1.
2. To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. "I shall waken all
this company." Chaucer.
Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage.
Milton.
Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm.
J. R. Green.
3. To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate;
to revive.
To second life Waked in the renovation of the just.
Milton.