Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Waken

Waken , intransitive verb

[Old English waknen, Anglo-Saxon wacnan; akin to Gothic gawaknan. See Wake, v. i.]

To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
Early, Turnus wakening with the light. — Dryden

Waken , transitive verb

1.
To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken.
Go, waken Eve. — Milton
2.
To excite; to rouse; to move to action; to awaken.
Then Homer's and Tyrtaeus' martial muse Wakened the world. — Roscommon
Venus now wakes, and wakens love. — Milton
They introduce Their sacred song, and waken raptures high. — Milton