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resurrection, n.|rɛzəˈrɛkʃən|
Also 4–5 resur(r)ectioun, 4–6 -eccio(u)n, 4–5 -exio(u)n, etc.
[a. OF. resurrecciun, -ection (F. résurrection, = Sp. resurreccion, It. re-, risurressione, -ezione), or ad. late L. resurrectiōn-em, n. of action f. resurgĕre to resurge.]
I.
1. a. The rising again of Christ after His death and burial.
c1320Cast. Love 1201 For nouȝt worþ weore his passion, Neore his resurexion. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 96 And þis was don in Cristis deþ and his resurreccioun. c1400Mandeville viii. (1839) 91 There appered first oure Lord to his Disciples, aftre his Resurrexioun. c1425Wyntoun Cron. v. ii. 330 Crist tholit þar his passion, And made his resurreccion. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 13 Forty dayes after his resurreccyon that blessed lorde ascended. 1563Homilies ii. xiv. (1869) 429, I come to declare that great..article of our Christian religion and faith, the resurrection of our Lord Jesus. 1643Caryl Expos. Job 103 Which words are applied by Paul..to the resurrection of Christ. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 599 How is it conceivable that so many Persons as pretended to see him after his Resurrection, should for 40 Days together imagine that they saw him? 1794Paley Evid. (1825) II. 321 The history of the resurrection of Christ is a part of the evidence of Christianity. 1892J. Tait Mind in Matter (ed. 3) 297 The men that condemned Christ were the first to be made aware of His resurrection.
b. The church-festival by which this event is commemorated.
In early examples = Easter; with quot. 1838 cf. resurrectio in Du Cange.
c1290St. Brendan 368 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 229 An ester eue heore procuratour bad heom heore schip take And heore resurrection opon þe fisches rugge make. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xviii. 425 Tyl þe daye dawed þis damaiseles daunced, That men rongen to þe resurexioun.
1838H. Nicolas Chronol. Hist. 169/1 Resurrection of our Lord, March 27.
†c. A dramatic or material representation of this event. Obs.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 4642 He may yn þe cherche, þurgh þys resun, Pley þe resurreccyun. 1466in Archaeologia (1887) L. 34 The resurreccion of our lorde with the avyse in hys bosum to put þe sacrament þer-in. Ibid., Item, anothir grete branche be-for the Resurreccion. 1521Churchw. Acct. St. Giles, Reading (ed. Nash) 14 For nayles cord & sope for the resurrexcion.
2. The rising again of mankind at the Last Day.
Frequently termed the general resurrection. For first resurrection see Revelation xx. 4–6.
a1300Cursor M. 19292 A naciun [that] Wald trau na resurrecciun Suld be o man on domes-dai. 1382Wyclif Mark xii. 23 Thanne in the resureccioun, whanne thei schulen rise aȝen, whos wyf of these schal sche be? 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) v. xiv. (1859) 81 So shalt thou ioyefully abide the general resurection. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 111 Moyses and Aaron schalle brynge furthe that arke of the testamente in the firste resurreccion. 1548Cranmer Short Instruct. (1829) 126 We must beleue the resurrection of the fleshe. 1569Jewel Exp. 1 Thess. Wks. 1848 VII. 93 They shall come forth of their graves to the resurrection of condemnation. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xxxiv. 214 In the resurrection men shall be Permanent, and not Incorporeall. 1746Hervey Medit. (1818) 76 Resurrection will be no privilege to them; but immortality itself their everlasting curse. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. l. V. 216 The doctrine of the resurrection was first entertained by the Egyptians. 1858Sears Athan. iii. ix. 329 The resurrection is the emergence of the spiritual body out of mortal decay into immortal existence. 1884Catholic Dict. (1897) 790/1 All the Creeds confess the resurrection of the body.
3. The action or fact of rising again from sleep, decay, disuse, etc.; revival; restoration to previous status or vogue.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. Prol. 110 For to ben at the resureccion Of this flour whan yt shulde vnclose.
1649Nicholas Papers (Camden) 146 Never to admit y⊇ resurreccion of the olde..Parliament by vertue of the Bill for Continuaunce. 1657Trapp Comm. Job xix. 27 See we not a yearly Resurrection of grasse, herbs, grain, flowers, fruits every Spring tide? 1769Burke Corr. (1844) I. 202 Though..Lord Chatham has had a wonderful resurrection to health, his resurrection to credit and consequence..must be owing to your lordship. 1796Burney Mem. Metastasio I. 35 The Italians, proud of the resurrection of their drama, began to challenge all the rest of Europe. 1849–50Alison Hist. Europe XIV. xcv. §84. 175 The unanimous resurrection of all the nations of Europe against the French domination. 1879Froude Cæsar xxi. 365 If the life of Cæsar alone stood between his country and the resurrection of the constitution.
4. a. A resurrected thing. rare.
1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 10 July, His horse was..a resurrection of dry bones. 1871R. Ellis tr. Catullus xvii. 3 The rotten Legs too crazily steadied on planks of old resurrections.
b. A disinterred corpse. (Cf. 6.) rare—1.
1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. cxxxiii. (1783) IV. 203 The doctor is attending a lady of your parish, who is troubled with a complication,..and she is expected to be as fine a resurrection as ever the doctor handled.
II. attrib. and Comb.
5. a. In various attrib. uses, as resurrection appearance, resurrection day, † resurrection gild, resurrection morning, resurrection piece, resurrection place, resurrection sermon, etc.
1463Bury Wills (Camden) 22, I wylle the owener of my place pay eche yeer viij d. to the resurreccion gilde that viij d. taperis may be light at the dirige and messe the same tyme. 1654Evelyn Diary 29 Mar., Mr. Owen preached in my Library..a Resurrection Sermon, and after it we all received the Holy Communion. 1728Morgan Algiers II. iv. 266 Resurrection-Day falling out soon after, the Christians were all at High-Mass. 1742De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. II. 214 A cloathed Resurrection Piece, painted by Sir James Thornhill. 1864Pusey Lect. Daniel (1876) 501 The great Resurrection-morning. 1875W. P. Mackay Grace & Truth 161 In resurrection-life we are sent back to it, to be here as specimens of saved sinners. 1892A. De Vere Leg. St. Patrick, St. P. & Impostor, Our resurrection place is here. 1931W. Temple Thoughts on Some Probl. of Day i. 19 The love revealed in Jesus Christ in His use of divine power..in His Death on the Cross, in His Resurrection-Appearances only to those whose love He had already won. 1977G. W. H. Lampe God as Spirit vi. 151 Resurrection appearances and empty tomb cannot in themselves furnish first-hand evidence for God's vindication of Jesus.
b. resurrection body, the form in which men will appear at the general resurrection.
1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 512 What a Change will it make in our Resurrection-Body, which being incomparably more..subtile than this, will be far more pliable to the Motions of the Soul? 1684T. Burnet The. Earth ii. 216 We have great reason to hope, that the soul will have a greater dominion over the resurrection-body, than she hath over this. 1704Norris Ideal World ii. iii. 163 Who knows what may be the privilege of a Resurrection-body joined to a beatified and glorified soul? 1858Sears Athan. i. xviii. 158 The seed-spark of our resurrection-body will not appear.
c. resurrection plant, (a) a Californian plant, Selaginella lepidophylla, the dried fronds of which unfold again when moistened; (b) the Rose of Jericho, an Eastern plant having similar properties; (c) one of several other plants which stay quiescent during drought and revive when moistened. Also called resurrection flower.
(a)1868A. Gray Field, Forest, & Garden Bot. 374 ‘Resurrection-Plant’..is a nest-like ball when dry, but when moist it unfolds. 1870Masters Henfrey's Bot. 413 One or two of the species [of Selaginellæ] roll up their fronds when dry, and unfold them again when placed in water, owing to the rapid absorption of the fluid, whence they have been called Resurrection plants. 1885G. L. Goodale Physiol. Bot. (1892) 400 Good examples..are afforded by the so-called Resurrection plant of California. 1893G. D. Leslie Lett. Marco xviii. 119 ‘A resurrection plant,’..some sort of large lichen or spleenwort from Colorado.
(b)1857G. W. Johnson Cottage Gardeners' Dict. (ed. 2) 34/2 When it [sc. the rose of Jericho] alights in water, or on damp ground, the branches relax and open out, as if its life was renewed; hence its name Resurrection Plant. 1884Miller Plant-n. 115/2 Resurrection-plant, Anastatica Hierochuntina. 188.Oxford Bible-Helps 121 The ‘rose of Jericho’ is also called ‘Mary's flower’ and ‘resurrection flower’. 1951Dict. Gardening (R. Hort. Soc.) IV. 1753/1 The Rose of Jericho, Anastatica Hierochuntica, is sometimes called a resurrection plant.
(c)1902L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Hort. IV. 1507/1 Resurrection plants are great curiosities... The commonest ones are members of the mustard family and the club moss family. 1974F. N. Howes Dict. Useful & Everyday Plants 217 Resurrection plant. Several pl[ant]s that appear dead after drought or a dry season but revive again w[ith] rain or moisture have acquired this name.
d. resurrection pie, a pie made out of the remains from previous meals. Also transf.
1869Furnivall Forewords to Q. Eliz. Acad. p. xxiii, A kind of Resurrection Pie like we used to have once a week at school, in which we declared old left bits reappeared. 1881E. J. Worboise Sissie xx, Dr. Heaviside's housekeeper is too fond of giving us resurrection-pie! 1903G. B. Shaw Let. 11 Sept. (1972) II. 370 We have both got the same job..to strike out a line for the advanced guard that is..neither Manchester resurrection-pie on the one hand nor Protectionist resurrection-pie on the other.
e. resurrection fern, one of several ferns that survive drought, esp. the grey polypody, Polypodium polypodioides, of the southern United States.
1909Cent. Dict. Suppl. 467/1 Resurrection-fern..contracts during drouth but revives in moist seasons. 1924J. A. Thomson Sci. Old & New v. 30 The ‘resurrection fern’..curls up its fronds in drought, and uncurls them when the rains return. 1963B. Cobb Field Guide to Ferns 56 Even though they wither in a drought they promptly become green again after getting moisture, and are therefore often referred to as Resurrection Ferns.
6. a. resurrection man, one who made a trade of exhuming bodies in order to sell them to anatomists; a corpse-stealer, resurrectionist.
1781R. King Mod. Lond. Spy 106 Persons (under the name of resurrection-men) continue their business, getting from 1 guinea to 5 or 6, according to the value set upon the corpse they take up. 1798Southey Ball. & Metr. T. Poet. Wks. VI. 187 Five guineas if he shoot A Resurrection Man. 1860Dickens Uncomm. Trav. xiv, He had carried up every separate article in the dead of the night, and..had felt as wicked as a Resurrection Man.
†b. So resurrection-cove, resurrection-jarvey, resurrection-woman. Obs.
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Resurrection-cove, a stealer of dead bodies. 1815Scott Guy M. lvi, They were, you remember, resurrection-women, who had promised to procure a child's body for some young surgeons. 1825C. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 249 A hackney night coachman, known..as the resurrection Jarvey.
So resuˈrrection v. trans., to resurrect.
1628Feltham Resolves i. lxxxiv, Then also, let men see, how the Sacred wheel of Providence hath resurrection'd all our joys. 1837Marryat Dog Fiend xxxii, There you be resurrectioned up again. |