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wacen

  • noun [ feminine ]
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wacen, (-an, -on, -un), e; f.
wakefulness, sleeplessness
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  • Ðone intingan ðínre unrótnisse and ðínre wacone (wæcene, Bd. M. 128, 23)

    tuae moestitiae et insomniorum causam,

      Bd. 2, 12; S. 513, 41
a watch, vigil
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  • 'Wel ðú dést ðæt ðú nalæs ðé slǽpe forgeáfe, ac má woldest wæccan (weacenum,

      Bd. M. 354, 7) and gebedum ætfeolan.' Cwæþ hé: 'Ic
    wát ðæt mé ðæs is micel ðearf, ðæt ic hálwendum weacenum ætfeole,' Bd. 4, 25; S. 601, 1-3.
a watch, a division of the night
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  • Ðiú feórða waccen (feórþe ðære wacone, Rush.)

    quarta vigilia,

      Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 14, 25.
  • Ymb ða feárða wacune (wacan, Lind.)

    circa quartam uigiliam,

      Mk. Skt. Rush. 6, 48.
  • On ða æfterra wacone (waccane, Lind.)

    in secunda uigilia,

      Lk. Skt. Rush. 12, 38.
a watch, guard
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  • Haldende wacone (wacana, Lind.) næhtes

    custodientes uigilias noctis,

      2, 8.
a rousing, an incitement
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  • Wacana mægna

    incitamenta virtutum,

      Rtl. 63, 36.
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v. on-wacan; f.; wæcen.
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v.  a-wacan wacan wacon wæcen weacen.
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  • wacen, n.