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wakeful, a.|ˈweɪkfʊl|
[f. wake v. + -ful.]
1. Keeping awake, esp. while others sleep, not yielding to sleep.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Col. iv. 2–4 Continue in prayer, not as dull & heauy people by reason of any surfetyng, but as sober & wakefull. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. v. 30. 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas i. ii. 736 As wakefull Students, in the Winter's night Against the steel,..Strike sudden sparks into their Tinder-box. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 38 The wakeful Bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal Note. 1710Steele Tatler No. 201 ⁋10 One of the most wakeful of the Soporifick Assembly. 1729T. Cooke Tales, etc. 44 If the Soul..Still bids the wakeful Eye of Sorrow flow. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. iii. ii. 389 Saint Mark's great bell at dawn shall find me wakeful!
2. Habitually keeping awake; fig. keeping on the alert, vigilant, watchful.
15..in Puttenham Engl. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 232 When Prince for his people is wakefull and wise. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xx. (1623) 959 These dangers..did worthily make the King wakeful euen ouer smaller accidents. 1823‘Jon Bee’ Dict. Turf s.v. Wake, The Scot considers no man awake or wakeful, who is not alive to his own interests. 1865Kingsley Herew. vi, He..had in all things shown himself a daring and wakeful captain.
b. of dispositions or actions.
1561Norton & Sackv. Gorboduc i. ii. 193 The brother, that shoulde be the brothers aide, And haue a wakefull care for his defence, Gapes for his death. a1639W. Whately Prototypes ii. xxvi. (1640) 91 God..hath disposed of things so by his wakefull providence. 1741–2Gray Agrippina 192 We could not have beguil'd With more elusive speed the dazzled sight Of wakeful jealousy. c1800H. K. White Sonn. Dermody, The pale pilot,..as he plies His wakeful task. 1817Chalmers Astron. Disc. v. (1852) 116 Bending a wakeful regard over the men of this sinful world. 1871J. R. Macduff Mem. Patmos v. 57 His unresting, wakeful vigilance.
c. transf. Of inanimate agencies: Continually active, never ceasing or resting.
1697Dryden æneis iv. 289 A hundred Altars fed with wakeful Fire.
3. Unable to sleep, restless.
1675Dryden Aurengz. ii. (1676) 23, I shrink far off—Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright. The day takes off the pleasure of the night. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xxix, Her spirits were wakeful and agitated; and finding it impossible to sleep, she determined [etc.]. 1853M. Arnold Sohrab & Rustum 6 All night long He had lain wakeful, tossing on his bed. 1860Thackeray Lovel vi. (1861) 220 Tick—tock! Moment after moment I heard on the clock the clinking footsteps of wakeful grief.
4. Marked by absence or want of sleep.
1628Pemble Worthy Rec. Lord's Supper 48 Sometimes a wakefull bed calls upon us to examine our hearts. 1697Dryden æneis ix. 210 They..pass the wakeful Night in Feasts and Play. 1870R. S. Hawker Footpr. Far Cornw. 208 That night an inspiration visited me in my wakeful bed.
5. Said of dreams, or what is normally characteristic of sleep: Waking.
1638Junius Paint. Ancients 22 Among our idle hopes and wakefull dreames, these Images do follow us so close. 1641Denham Sophy i. ii, All thy feares, Thy wakefull terrors, and affrighting dreames,..have now Their full rewards. 1820Keats Eve St. Agnes xxvii, In sort of wakeful swoon, perplex'd she lay. 1855Tennyson Maud ii. iv. v, In a wakeful doze I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow. 1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 316 Following the wayward turn of wakeful fancies.
†6. Rousing (one) from sleep, awakening. Obs.
1629Milton Christ's Nativ. xvi, Yet first to those ychain'd in sleep, The wakefull trump of doom must thunder through the deep.
Hence ˈwakefully adv., ˈwakefulness.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. iv. (1912) 374 Making the cowardly Clinias to have care of the watch, which he knew his own feare would make him very wakefully performe. 1626Bacon Sylva §925 There be other Perfumes, that..are fit to be vsed in Burning Agues,..and too much Wakefulnesse. 1753Adventurer No. 39 ⁋11 So, perhaps, to each individual of the human species, nature has ordained the same quantity of wakefulness and sleep. 1776Johnson in Boswell (1904) I. 654 He should have a lamp constantly burning..and if wakefully disturbed, take a book, and read. 1830Coleridge Table-t. 1 May, If he had relaxed the stern wakefulness of his reason for a single moment. 1847Evanson & Maunsell Managem. & Dis. Childr. (ed. 5) 352 Wakefulness is a very prominent character of nervous irritation in the child, and should always arrest attention. 1884Leeds Mercury 15 Nov. 6/6 England stands firmly and wakefully on guard behind the line up to which the Russians have seen fit to advance. |