expergefaction

English

Etymology

From Latin expergefactiō, from expergefaciō.

Noun

expergefaction (plural expergefactions)

1. An awakening
   • 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:

     “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?”

   • 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:

     “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.”

   • 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:

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