Now rare. [ad. late L. expergēfactiōn-em, n. of action f. expergēfacĕre, f. experg-ĕre to awake, rouse + facĕre to make, cause.] The action of awaking or rousing; the state, condition or fact of being awakened or aroused.
1638. O. Sedgwicke, Serm. (1639), 15. An heavenly expergefaction.
1651. Biggs, New Disp., ¶ 204. The dilatory expergefaction from a disease.
1660. Howell, Parly of Beasts, 45. Having, after such a long noctivagation … return’d to my perfect expergefaction.
1824. Blackw. Mag., XV. 94. Another propitious recollection; namely, my first expergefaction at Farsa.
1827. G. S. Faber, Sacr. Calendar Prophecy (1844), III. 118. The first Head, after a long reign of more than 1800 years subsequent to its expergefaction by Augustus, [etc.].
