Definition of wake

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Wake (n.) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess..

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Respective :: Respective (a.) Fitted to awaken respect.
Waken :: Waken (v. i.) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
Interest :: Interest (n.) To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work..
Wake :: Wake (n.) The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake..
Excitation :: Excitation (n.) The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
Lords And Ladies :: Lords and Ladies () The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), -- those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies..
Awake :: Awake (v. i.) To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death..
Wake :: Wake (v. t.) To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body..
Latewake :: Latewake (n.) See Lich wake, under Lich..
Insomnia :: Insomnia (n.) Want of sleep; inability to sleep; wakefulness; sleeplessness.
Wake :: Wake (v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
Wakening :: Wakening (n.) The act of one who wakens; esp., the act of ceasing to sleep; an awakening..
Awakener :: Awakener (n.) One who, or that which, awakens..
Ridicule :: Ridicule (v. t.) To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
Engaged :: Engaged (a.) Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.
Awake :: Awake (v. t.) To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties..
Oppugnant :: Oppugnant (a.) Tending to awaken hostility; hostile; opposing; warring.
Uprouse :: Uprouse (v. t.) To rouse up; to rouse from sleep; to awake; to arouse.
Sleepless :: Sleepless (a.) Having no sleep; wakeful.
Reawake :: Reawake (v. i.) To awake again.
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