King James Bible Dictionary

WAKEN, verb intransitive wakn. To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.

Early Turnus wakning with the light.

WAKEN, verb transitive wakn.

1. To excite or rouse from sleep.

Go, waken Eve.

2. To excite to action or motion.

Then Homers and Tyraeus martial muse wakend the world.

3. To excite; to produce; to rouse into action.

They introduce their sacred song, and waken raptures high.

WAKENED, participle passive Roused from sleep; excited into action.

WAKENER, noun One who rouses from sleep.

WAKENING, participle present tense Rousing form sleep or stupidity; calling into action.