rouze

English

Verb

rouze (third-person singular simple present rouzes, present participle rouzing, simple past and past participle rouzed)

1. Obsolete spelling of rouse
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And the whole family, therewith adredd,
     Rashly out of their rouzed couches sprong

   • 1634, Francis Quarles, Emblems:

     Up and rouze thy leaden spirit.

   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Humours and Dispositions of the Laputians Described. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), pages 16–17:

     It ſeems, the Minds of theſe People are ſo taken up with intenſe Speculations, that they neither can ſpeak, nor attend to the Diſcourſes of others, without being rouzed by ſome external Taction upon the Organs of Speech and Hearing; for which reaſon, thoſe Perſons who are able to afford it always keep a Flapper (the Original is Climenole) in their Family, as one of their Domeſticks, nor ever walk abroad or make Viſits without him.

   • 1785, Dawes, Manasseh & Jones, Sir William, England's Alarm!, page 9:

     But it needs only to be minutely examined, and properly valued, to rouze the nation to preserve it unimpaired...