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▪ I. waking, vbl. n.|ˈweɪkɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb wake.
1. a. The action of remaining awake or of sitting up at night.
1340Ayenb. 52 Efterward ine zuyche wakinges me deþ manye kueades, ase playe ate ches oþer ate tables. c1386Chaucer Man of Law's Prol. 22 The tyme..steleth from vs, what pryuely slepynge And what thurgh necligence in oure wakynge. 1422Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 247 Myche wakynge makyth the body lene. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 33 Of thought cometh the wakyngis and unrestis. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iii. iii. 19 Ne're was dreame So like a waking. 1638Ford Fancies iii. iii, I am not So weary of th' authority I hold Over mine owne contents in sleepes and wakings. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xxxii. 196 To say he hath seen a Vision..is to say, that he dreamed between sleeping and waking. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. xxxi, Days of danger, nights of waking. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop lxiv. Her eyes were..red with waking and crying.
b. spec. Keeping vigil as an act of devotion.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 69 Vre rihte leue, god, cume to þe þurh festing and þurh wacunge. 1340Ayenb. 232 Him behoueþ wel wysliche his uless ouercome..be uestinges, be wakiinges and be benes. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋1038 Bodily peyne..stant in preyeres, in wakynges, in fastynges. c1400Love Bonavent. Mirr. xxvii. (1908) 141 He..doth his tendre body to penaunce, and waketh long wakynges. c1460Wisdom 1030 in Macro Plays 69 Lo, wakynge ys a holy thynge! 1710D. Hilman Tusser Rediv. June (1744) 81 Waking in the Church was left off because of some Abuses.
2. a. The action of watching, or keeping watch and ward; dial. a keeping watch or holding a ‘wake’ over a corpse.
c1440Promp. Parv. 514/1 Wakynge, or wetche, vigilia. c1440York Myst. xxxviii. 357 Oure wakyng, lorde, with⁓outen wene Is worthed to noȝt. 1529Reg. Privy Seal Scot. 30 Exemand hir fra all walking, warding, and paying of stent within the burgh of Edinburgh or outwith. 1572Inv. Ketshange (Somerset Ho.), For kepinge of her and wackinge of her iijd. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. i, Sang 1. Tune, The wawking of the faulds. 1823‘Jon Bee’ Dict. Turf s.v. Wake, In England the body is sometimes placed in a coffin; in Ireland, seldom so, the waking being usually called for the purpose of procuring one. 1891Stevenson In South Seas iv. v. (1900) 311 Of home life we had but the one view: the waking of a corpse.
†b. One of the ‘watches’ or divisions of the night (L. vigilia). Obs.
1382Wyclif Matt. xiv. 25 In the fourthe wakyng of the niȝt [Vulg. quarta vigilia noctis]. c1400Love Bonavent. Mirr. xxvii. (1908) 143 At the ferthe wakynge of the nyȝt.
3. The action of becoming awake or conscious, of ceasing to sleep. Also with up.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 1 Ac after my wakyng it was wonder longe Ar I couth kyndely knowe what was dowel. 1530Palsgr. 286/1 Wakyng after slepe, reueil. 1553Bradford Serm. Repent. (1574) G ij, In this his syn, though a great while he lay a sleepe (as many do nowe adayes, God geue them good waking). 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iv. i. 116 (3rd Qo.) He and I Will watch thy waking. 1709Addison Tatler No. 97 Their slumbers are sound, and their wakings chearful. 1860Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 63 My own wakings up some twenty or thirty times every night. 1864G. A. Lawrence M. Dering II. 119 But, if Dering rested well, his waking was not so enviable.
4. The action of rousing (a person or animal) from sleep; † a night-attack. Also fig.
1525Ld. Berners Froiss. (1812) II. xlix. 168 To close in theyr felde, to lodge therin more at theyr ease, without waking or skries. 1546J. Heywood Prov. i. x. (1867) 24 It is euyll wakyng of a sleepyng dog. 1654Sir A. Johnston (Ld. Wariston) Diary (S.H.S.) II. 238, I took this as a warning and waking and alarum from the Lord to me.
5. Comb.: † waking-silver, ? a payment in lieu of keeping watch and ward; waking-time, the time when one is awake; the moment at which one wakes up.
1390–91Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 597 Item Will'o Patonson pro Argent. sibi dato, et sociis suis pro Wakyng silvyr, vij s. 1546Yorks. Chantry Surv. (Surtees) I. 172 To the Kynges Majestie for waykyng sylver payd..to Pontfret Castell. 1959T. S. Eliot Elder Statesman 5 To my wife, To whom I owe the leaping delight That quickens my senses in our wakingtime. 1971H. Wilson Labour Govt. xv. 263, I asked for a sleeping pill, in case I came to at English waking-time, 4.00 a.m. in Washington.
▪ II. waking, ppl. a.|ˈweɪkɪŋ|
[f. wake v. + -ing2.]
1. That remains awake; that keeps watch; fig. that continues on the alert, vigilant, watchful.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 39 Drihten bi-hat þon wakiende ane crune. c1400Destr. Troy 649 Bes wakond and warly. a1475Ashby Dicta Philos. 715 In your counsail be quick and ay wakyng. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. 154 The Mastie that keepeth the house..must..be..very waking. 1601in Foley Rec. Eng. Prov. S. J. (1880) VI. 735 He was thought negligent, and therefore they sent a wakinger spirit. 1620T. May Heir ii. (1622) C 3, Were there a thousand waking Dragons set To keepe that golden fruit. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. i. §11 The Soul in a waking Man is never without thought, because it is the condition of being awake. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey v. xv, The screech of the waking owl.
2. That ceases to sleep, that becomes awake.
1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho vii, The breeze that..swells the melody of waking birds.
3. ‘Rousing from sleep; exciting into motion or action’.
1828–32Webster; and in later Dicts.
4. transf. Belonging to, characteristic of, one who wakes or is awake.
1567Turberv. Epit., etc. 66 b, And if in dawning chaunce some drouping sleepe to light Upon the carefull Corse that thus hath spent the waking night. 1624Donne Devot. Med. xv. (ed. 2) 350 Hee may bee ashamed of his waking dreames. 1634Milton Comus 263 Such sober certainty of waking bliss I never heard till now. 1697Dryden æneis x. 908 Thus haunting Ghosts appear to waking Sight. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) V. 261 Realizing to his eyes the scenes of many a waking vision. 1833L. Ritchie Wand. by Loire 198 Our waking existence is made up almost entirely of anticipations and regrets. 1848Dickens Dombey xxxix, Captain Cuttle could hardly believe it..though he saw it done with his waking eyes. a1859Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxiii. V. 94 The subject..was never, during two waking hours together, out of his thoughts.
Hence ˈwakingly adv.
1388Wyclif Ecclus. xiii. 17 And thou schalt wake. [Gloss] And in this thou schalt haue thee wakingli and diligently. c1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 54 Hys father had apperyd .iij. nyghtis to gedyr to hys moeder wakyngly as sche was yn her prayers at home yn her chambyr. 1552Huloet, Wakyngly, uigilanter. |