Resurgent
(Re*sur"gent) a. [L. resurgens, -entis, p. pr. of resurgere. See Resurrection.] Rising
again, as from the dead. Coleridge.
Resurgent
(Re*sur"gent), n. One who rises again, as from the dead. [R.] Sydney Smith.
Resurrect
(Res`ur*rect") v. t. [See Resurrection.]
1. To take from the grave; to disinter. [Slang]
2. To reanimate; to restore to life; to bring to view [Slang]
Resurrection
(Res`ur*rec"tion) n. [F. résurrection, L. resurrectio, fr. resurgere, resurrectum, to rise
again; pref. re- re- + surgere to rise. See Source.]
1. A rising again; the resumption of vigor.
2. Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption of life by the dead; as, the resurrection of
Jesus Christ; the general resurrection of all the dead at the Day of Judgment.
Nor after resurrection shall he stay
Longer on earth.
Milton. 3. State of being risen from the dead; future state.
In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage.
Matt. xxii. 30. 4. The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.
I am the resurrection, and the life.
John xi. 25. Cross of the resurrection, a slender cross with a pennant floating from the junction of the bars. —
Resurrection plant (Bot.), a name given to several species of Selaginella (as S. convoluta and S.
lepidophylla), flowerless plants which, when dry, close up so as to resemble a bird's nest, but revive and
expand again when moistened. The name is sometimes also given to the rose of Jericho. See under
Rose.
Resurrectionist
(Res`ur*rec"tion*ist) n. One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection. [Slang]
Resurrectionize
(Res`ur*rec"tion*ize) v. t. To raise from the dead. [R.] Southey.
Resurvey
(Re`sur*vey") v. t. To survey again or anew; to review. Shak.
Resurvey
(Re*sur"vey) n. A second or new survey.
Resuscitable
(Re*sus"ci*ta*ble) a. Capable of resuscitation; as, resuscitable plants. Boyle.
Resuscitant
(Re*sus"ci*tant) n. One who, or that which resuscitates. Also used adjectively.
Resuscitate
(Re*sus"ci*tate) a. [L. resuscitatus, p. p. of resuscitare; pref. re- re- + suscitare to raise,
rouse. See Suscitate.] Restored to life. [R.] Bp. Gardiner.
Resuscitate
(Re*sus"ci*tate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resuscitated ;p. pr. & vb. n. Resuscitating.] To
revivify; to revive; especially, to recover or restore from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to
resuscitate withered plants.
Resuscitate
(Re*sus"ci*tate), v. i. To come to life again; to revive.
These projects, however often slain, always resuscitate.
J. S. Mill.
