the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Rouse (2)
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v.) To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions.
(2):
(v.) To raise; to make erect.
(3):
(v. i. & t.) To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
(4):
(v.) To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.
(5):
(v.) To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
(6):
(v.) To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
(7):
(v. i.) To awake from sleep or repose.
(8):
(v. i.) To get or start up; to rise.
(9):
(v. i.) To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
(10):
(n.) A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
(11):
(n.) A bumper in honor of a toast or health.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Rouse (2)'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/rouse-2.html. 1828.
