Revive
(Re*vive") v. i. [imp. & p. p. Revived ; p. pr. & vb. n. Reviving.] [F. revivere, L. revivere; pref.
re- re- + vivere to live. See Vivid.]
1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak.
The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived.
1 Kings
xvii. 22. 2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning
revived in the fifteenth century.
3. (Old Chem.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
Revive
(Re*vive"), v. t. [Cf. F. reviver. See Revive, v. i.]
1. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived.
Bp. Pearson. 2. To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts.
Shak.
Your coming, friends, revives me.
Milton. 3. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
4. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. "Revive
the libels born to die." Swift.
The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had.
Locke. 5. (Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.
Revivement
(Re*vive"ment) n. Revival. [R.]
Reviver
(Re*viv"er) n. One who, or that which, revives.
Revivificate
(Re`vi*vif"i*cate) v. t. [Pref. re- + vivificate: cf. L. revivificare, revivificatum. Cf. Revivify.]
To revive; to recall or restore to life. [R.]
Revivification
(Re*viv`i*fi*ca"tion) n. [Cf. F. révivification.]
1. Renewal of life; restoration of life; the act of recalling, or the state of being recalled, to life.
2. (Old Chem.) The reduction of a metal from a state of combination to its metallic state.
Revivify
(Re*viv"i*fy) v. t. [Cf. F. révivifier, L. revivificare. See Vivify.] To cause to revive.
Some association may revivify it enough to make it flash, after a long oblivion, into consciousness.
Sir
W. Hamilton. Reviving
(Re*viv"ing) a. & n. Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating. Milton. — Re*viv"ing*ly,
adv.
