expergefaction

plural expergefactions

1. formalobsoleteAn awakening.

   “Why not call the unreal indicative the mood of resipiscence to match the imperfect of expergefaction, the imperfect with ᾰρα?”

   1902, “Brief Mentions”, in Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Tenney Frank, Harold Fredrik Cherniss, Henry Thompson Rowell, editors, Journal of Philology, page 232

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   “Thouſands drink in the Love of theſe, together with their Parents milk, and are enamoured on them from their very Cradles; yet I am ſure the affectations of theſe Arts, cannot be derived from Præexiſtence; they cannot poſſibly be any new expergefactions of dormient prepenſions, or refloreſcencies of obſolete and forgotten Cuſtoms, contracted in a ſuperior life; becauſe there is nothing parallel to them above, about which Præexiſtent Spirits could be buſied : For who is ſo phrantick or fooliſh, as to dream Gardening, Brick-laying, Agriculture, Weaving, &c. Or any callings like them, to be in faſhion in the Celeſtial Countries?”

   1667, E. W. A. M., No præexistence: or, a ... dissertation against the hypothesis of humane souls living in a state antecedaneous to this, page 58

   “Life are infinitely contracted, and that ſhe lies aſleep or dead to her largeſt Faculties ; and that therefore the excitation of them is her expergefaction into infinitely a more ample Sphere of Life.”

   1692, H. More, edited by J. Worthington, Discourses on several texts of Scripture. By the late Pious and Learned Henry More, D. D., page 241