rouze

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

1. Obsolete spelling of rouse
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And the whole family, therewith adredd,
     Rashly out of their rouzed couches sprong

   • 1634, Francis Quarles, Emblems:

     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...