单词 | wakener |
释义 | wakenern. 1. a. A person or thing that wakens or arouses. Also with up. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > [noun] > that which causes emotion > one who or that which stirs the emotions waker1390 stingc1412 wakener1513 awaker1611 impressor1631 quickener1819 button pusher1990 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [noun] > bringing into action > rousing to activity > that which or one who wakener1513 rouser1611 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Prol. 109 Quhay ar wirkaris of this weir, quha walkynaris of wa. 1597 King James VI & I Daemonologie iii. iii. 67 The procurer & wakener vp of these two natural qualities. a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) Introd. 52 A verse, which..served for a wakener for to rouse me from..sleep. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xix. 689 These are the genuine wakeners or exciters of the Ferment of the Stomach. 1878 C. Stanford Symbols Christ (new ed.) xii. 335 The soul's wakener is always Christ. 1887 S. Smiles Life & Labour 269 Tea is another wakener-up. 1895 G. Meredith Amazing Marriage I. xvi. 185 Delivering a wakener [i.e. a rousing blow] in unexpected quarters. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > alarm clock > other parts of larum1542 wakener1564 reveille-matin1610 1564 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 308 Ane lytill knok, with ane walknar ouregilt. 2. One who awakes. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > [noun] > action, act, or state of waking or being wakened > specific being or becoming awake > one who wakera1637 startler1810 wakener1857 waker-upper1935 1857 E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë I. vi. 114 She remembered the times when watchers or wakeners in the night heard the distant word of command. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1513 |
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