Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A-WAKE'
A-WAKE', v.i.
- To cease to sleep; to come from a state of natural sleep. Jacob awaked out of sleep. Gen. xxviii.
- To bestir, revive or rouse from a state of inaction; to be invigorated with new life; as, the mind awakes from its stupidity. Awake, O sword, against my shepherd. Zech. xiii.
- To rouse from spiritual sleep. Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. Eph. v. Awake to righteousness. – 1 Cor. xv.
- To rise from the dead. Job xiv.
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