rouze

English

Verb

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

  1. Obsolete spelling of rouse
    • Francis Quarles
      Up and rouze thy leaden spirit.
    • 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...
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