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Rousing   /rˈaʊzɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Rouse  v. i. & v. t.  (Naut.) To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.


Rouse  v. t.  (past & past part. roused; pres. part. rousing)  
1.
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase. "Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes." "Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound."
2.
To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
3.
To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions. "To rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom."
4.
To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate. "Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea."
5.
To raise; to make erect. (Obs.)


Rouse  v. i.  
1.
To get or start up; to rise. (Obs.) "Night's black agents to their preys do rouse."
2.
To awake from sleep or repose. "Morpheus rouses from his bed."
3.
To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.


adjective
Rousing  adj.  
1.
Having power to awaken or excite; exciting. "I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me."
2.
Very great; violent; astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie. (Colloq.)





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"Rousing" Quotes from Famous Books



... to be encountered in rousing England was sheer short-sightedness. A considerable time elapsed before it was possible to make the people understand that this was a people's war, that it was a matter of vital personal concern to the people as a whole, and to all individuals as individuals. ...
— Towards The Goal • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... slowly and with anything but an elated look. It was evident that Mr. Leslie had refrained from rousing his expectations. He stared ...
— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet
... deep-slumbering Master heard him. Rousing himself, and still three-quarters asleep, he heard not only the scratching and the whimper but, in the distance, Lady's wail of fear. And, ...
— Further Adventures of Lad • Albert Payson Terhune
... staff apparently had designed a campaign in Upper Alsace and the Vosges, but the throwing of a brigade from Belfort across the frontier on the extreme right of their line on August 6 would seem to have been undertaken chiefly with a view of rousing patriotic enthusiasm. French aeroplane scouts had brought in the intelligence that only small bodies of German troops occupied the left bank of the Rhine. Therefore the opportunity was presented to invade the upper part of the lost province of ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various
... and the old trees far apart; so when we got upon the grass I knew who would be mistress. I gave her a rousing good gallop, shook my reins and patted her, to show her how confident I was, and brought her back to my uncle as quiet as a lamb. Unfortunately, however, the mare had taken a dislike to certain stone pillars which supported the stable gates, and ...
— Kate Coventry - An Autobiography • G. J. Whyte-Melville


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