WAKEN, wakn. To wake to cease to sleep to be awakened.
Early Turnus wakning with the light.
WAKEN, 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.
The King James Bible has stood its ground for nearly 400 years. However, during that time the English language has changed, and with it the meanings of some words it used. Here are more than 6,500 words whose definitions have changed since 1611.Wikipedia
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