Wakening

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wakening \Wak"en*ing\, n.
     1. The act of one who wakens; esp., the act of ceasing to
        sleep; an awakening.
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     2. (Scots Law) The revival of an action. --Burrill.


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              They were too much ashamed to bring any wakening of
              the process against Janet.            --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Waken \Wak"en\, v. i. [imp. & p. pr. {Wakened}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Wakening}.] [OE. waknen, AS. w[ae]cnan; akin to Goth.
     gawaknan. See {Wake}, v. i.]
     To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
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           Early, Turnus wakening with the light.   --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wakening
       n : the act of waking; "it was an early awakening"; "it was the
           waking up he hated most" [syn: {awakening}, {waking up}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  WAKENING, Scotch law. The revival of an action. 
       2. An action is said to sleep, when it lies over, not insisted on for a 
  year in which case it is suspended. 4, t. 1, n. 33. With us a revival is by 
  scire facias. (q.v.)