单词 | wakening |
释义 | wakeningn. a. The action of waken v.; a rousing or being roused from sleep, torpor, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > [noun] > action, act, or state of waking or being wakened wakeningc1440 expergefaction1639 arousal1854 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [noun] > being roused from inaction wakeningc1440 stightlinga1500 rousing?a1563 starting up1567 awakening1599 c1440 Bone Flor. 1660 A sorowfull wakenyng had sche thore. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8431 At hir wakonyng. 1677 Reg. Privy Council Scott. 3rd Ser. V. 263 Threatenings..to give the petitioner and his familie ane hott walkening. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 887 Sweetly blythe his waukening be. 1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. i. 2 New every morning is the love Our wakening and uprising prove. 1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain ii. xxv Her first wakening to the knowledge that Margaret was gone. 1913 J. H. Morrison On Trail of Pioneers xxiii. 112 The wakening of China was quickened by a generation. b. Scots Law. (See waken v. 6.) ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > writ > seeking to obtain writ > reviving of process wakening1584 1584 in D. Littlejohn Rec. Sheriff Court Aberdeenshire (1904) Introd. 44 This day being assignit be ane walkining to pronunce Interloquitor in the said caus. 1608 Melrose Regality Rec. (S.H.S.) I. 62 Lawrence Scott..producit ane precept of wakning aganis the haill persons, fewaris, [etc.]. 1765–8 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. iv. i. §62 Consequently the decree may be extracted, after the year is elapsed, without the necessity of a wakening. 1868 Act 31 & 32 Victoria c. 100 §95 It shall be competent for any of the parties..to lodge a minute craving a wakening of the cause. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2019). > as lemmasˈwakening ˈwakening adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [adjective] > rising as if from sleep > rousing as if from sleep awakening1694 wakening1813 1813 W. Scott Rokeby ii. 55 And the rich dale, that eastward lay, Waited the wakening touch of day. 1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh i. 166 Ere Peace can visit them, or Truth let in Her wakening day-light on a world of sin! < n.c1440 as lemmas |
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