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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ROUS'ING, ppr.
1. Awaking from sleep; exciting; calling into action.
2. a. Having power to awaken or excite.
3. Great; violent; as a rousing fire. [Vulgar.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement; "a rousing sermon"; "stirring events such as wars and rescues" [syn: rousing, stirring]
2: rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading; "tossed a rousing political comment into the conversation" n
1: the act of arousing; "the purpose of art is the arousal of emotions" [syn: arousal, rousing]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1640 1. a. giving rise to excitement ; stirring <a rousing speech> b. brisk, lively 2. exceptional, superlative <a rousing success> • rousingly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 exciting, stirring (a rousing cheer; a rousing song). 2 (of a fire) blazing strongly. Derivatives: rousingly adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rouse Rouse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Roused (rouzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Rousing.] [Probably of Scan. origin; cf. Sw. rusa to rush, Dan. ruse, AS. hre['o]san to fall, rush. Cf. Rush, v.] 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. --Spenser. Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound. --Pope. 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. --Atterbury. 4. To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate. Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea. --Milton. 5. To raise; to make erect. [Obs.] --Spenser. Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rousing Rous"ing, a. 1. Having power to awaken or excite; exciting. I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me. --Milton. 2. Very great; violent; astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie. [Colloq.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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Moby Thesaurus

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