| 单词 | resurrection man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasresurrection man resurrection man n. now historical = resurrectionist n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > bodysnatcher > [noun] resurrectionist1777 resurrection man1781 resurrection woman1815 body snatcher1819 resurrection cove1819 resurrectioner1822 resurrection jarvey1825 grab1831 snatcher1831 body lifter1832 all-night man1861 resurrector1861 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > exhumation > [noun] > one who > for anatomical purposes resurrectionist1777 resurrection man1781 resurrection woman1815 resurrection cove1819 resurrection jarvey1825 1781 Compl. Mod. London 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. 1798 R. Southey Ballads & Metr. Tales in Poet. Wks. VI. 187 Five guineas if he shoot A Resurrection Man. 1833 H. Smith Gale Middleton I. ix. 214 The re-opened grave..tended to confirm the policeman's notion, that the resurrection-men had been at their nefarious work during the night. 1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 18 Aug. 455/2 He had carried up every separate article in the dead of the night, and..had felt as wicked as a Resurrection Man. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 937/2 Earlier exhumations seem to have caused very little popular concern;..but later..the trade of ‘resurrection man’ became commoner, and attracted the lowest dregs of the vicious classes. 1980 F. Smyth Cause of Death i. 22 Like his fellow surgeons, however, he was hampered by the laws which restricted the use of bodies for dissection; this in turn led to the heyday of the ‘body snatchers’ or ‘resurrection men’ as they were termed. 2001 S. T. Asma Stuffed Animals & Pickled Heads ii. 52 The grave robbers of England became known as ‘resurrection men’. < as lemmas |
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