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▪ I. ˈresurrect, n. rare—1.
[ad. L. resurrect-us: cf. next.]
One who has risen from the dead.
1892G. Hake Mem. 80 Yrs. lxv. 278 Wolsey, he rose; the Bonapartes rose;..Lazarus rose; but no man, priest, soldier..or resurrect, ever rose in death, as did St. Peter.
▪ II. resurrect, v.|rɛzəˈrɛkt|
[A back-formation from resurrection.]
1. a. trans. To raise (a person) from the dead or from the grave; to restore to life or to view again.
1772Misc. in Ann. Reg. 174/1 As fast as we knock them on the head, this cursed Tunestrick..resurrects them again in a squirt. a1864Hawthorne Dr. Grimshawe (1883) 8 Dead men's almost intangible atoms, resurrected from the adjoining graveyard. 1898Benham Fourth Napoleon 162 When they are dead, they are dead, and all the counting in the world won't resurrect them.
b. fig., with reference to persons.
1856Benton Abridgm. Deb. Congress (1858) VI. 712 note, I resurrect the whole! put them in scene again on the living stage. 1876Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. 29 This could not be the Forese Donati resurrected and torn above ground by..darkling moles.
c. fig., with reference to things.
1852B. Young Jrnl. of Discourses (1854) I. 33/1 We shall not want to look upon our past actions; we shall say..I do not want that to be resurrected, but let it die in the grave. 1863Morn. Star 26 Dec., Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected. 1892Black & White 2 July 10/1 He..resurrects recollections of the good old times. 1904Forum July 132 The..offer made by General Reyes in behalf of the Bogota Government to resurrect and ratify the dead canal treaty. 1942Z. N. Hurston in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 31/1 They resurrected a joke or two and worried it like a bone.
2. intr. To rise again from the dead. Also fig.
1823Bentham Not Paul but Jesus 279 Jesus resurrects; therefore all men will do the same. 1890Harper's Mag. Nov. 870/1 It is..the one day upon which the cemeteries resurrect out of the things they are, and become the things they should be. 1969G. M. Brown Orkney Tapestry 52 The ribs of crag and tree Resurrecting with birds.
Hence resuˈrrecting ppl. adj.
1887Service Life Dr. Duguid 270 Sweet love, like the resurrecting dawn, awoke the birds. |