| 释义 |
resuˈrrectionary, a.
[f. as prec. + -ary.]
1. Of the nature of resurrection; restoratory.
1860Dickens Uncomm. Trav. vii, Old men and women, ugly and blind, who always seemed by resurrectionary process to be recalled out of the elements.
2. Concerned or connected with the disinterment of bodies for anatomical purposes.
1837Southey in C. C. Southey Life (1849) VI. 359 A medical student..expressed his satisfaction at having escaped being taken upon a resurrectionary party. 1859G. Wilson Life E. Forbes iv. (1861) 92 A fellow-student,..with a gunshot wound received in a resurrectionary expedition to Musselburgh churchyard. |