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arouse: [16] Shakespeare is the first writer on record to use arouse, in 2 Henry VI, 1593: ‘Loud howling wolves arouse the jades that drag the tragic melancholy night’. It was formed, with the intensive prefix a-, from rouse, a word of unknown origin which was first used in English in the 15th century as a technical term in falconry, meaning ‘plump up the feathers’.
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arouse (v.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1590s, "awaken" (transitive), from a- (1) "on" + rouse. Related: Aroused; arousing.