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单词 resurrectionist
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resurrectionistn.

Brit. /ˌrɛzəˈrɛkʃn̩ɪst/, /ˌrɛzəˈrɛkʃənɪst/, U.S. /ˌrɛzəˈrɛkʃənəst/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: resurrection n., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < resurrection n. + -ist suffix.
1. A person who illegally exhumes bodies in order to sell them to anatomists; a bodysnatcher. Cf. resurrection man n. at resurrection n. Compounds 2. Now historical.
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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 mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > bodysnatcher > [adjective]
resurrectionist1777
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > exhumation > [noun] > one who > for anatomical purposes
resurrectionist1777
resurrection man1781
resurrection woman1815
resurrection cove1819
resurrection jarvey1825
1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 129 One..who makes open profession of dealing in dead bodies and is well known by the name of the Resurrectionist.
1799 Ann. Reg. 1794: Chron. 9/1 This evening a set of resurrectionists were apprehended at a house near the turnpike, Mile-End.
1831 Times 7 Nov. 6/5 Here 2 or 3 constables..exclaimed that they knew Ray to be a noted ‘resurrectionist’.
1869 Latest News 5 Sept. 10 A tale entitled ‘The Baron's Coffin’, the subject of which is divided between spectres and resurrectionists.
1896 J. B. Bailey Diary Resurrectionist 137 He continued in the resurrectionist business up to the time of the passing of the Anatomy Act.
1927 B. J. Stern Social Factors in Med. Progress iii. 41 Excitement ran very high against dissectors in Great Britain, especially after the exposé of the work of the ‘resurrectionists’ in the early nineteenth century.
1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Apr. 451/5 A sinister group of organleggers who go beyond the resurrectionists and try to keep the hospitals supplied with adequate numbers of fresh organs for transplants.
1999 C. Wallace Resurrection Club (2000) 202 As one of the city's oldest cemeteries it is also one of the most plundered, an early magnet for the resurrectionist's trade.
2. Chiefly Christian Church. A believer in resurrection.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [noun] > resurrection > believer in
resurrectionist1830
1830 A. Addis Theory of Prophecy Prol. p.xliv Those who make the rest of the dead..to be the same with the remnant slain by the sword..to be consistent, ought to make the first resurrectionists the same with the armies in heaven.
1860 All Year Round 18 Feb. 389/1 Schultze made considerable efforts to increase the number of resurrectionists.
1959 J. C. Chapin tr. A. Giovannetti We have Pope ii. 30 The Assumptionists, Resurrectionists, and Conventual Franciscans of the Oriental rite assisted the secular clergy of the Oriental rite.
2007 S. Fuller Sci. v. Religion? ii. 68 Whereas the immortalist would purge all reminders of earthly error and failure, the resurrectionist would preserve them as constitutive of our becoming who we are.
3.
a. A person who brings something to light or notice again; a reviver of a disused practice or operation.
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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] > restoration to flourishing condition > one who
regenerator1538
revivora1540
resuscitator1810
resurrectionist1831
1831 New Monthly Mag. 32 362 We have no taste for enacting the part of literary resurrectionists.
1850 E. P. Whipple Ess. & Rev. (ed. 3) II. 157 He has shown more industry and acuteness than almost any other contemporary resurrectionist in the grave-yards of deceased books.
1890 Spectator 28 June The literary resurrectionist digs them up again, and an author's worst work is brought into almost as much prominence as his best.
1926 J. C. Bailey Walt Whitman iii. 50 In nearly all cases editors only insult their hero by doing the work of resurrectionists.
1971 New Lit. Hist. 2 216 Scholarly resurrectionists dig up even forgotten ideas and forms.
2007 Variety (Nexis) 3 Sept. 67 Bank is a theatrical resurrectionist: His New York-based company..specializes in unearthing and staging ‘neglected but worthy’ works.
b. colloquial. A person who sells renovated or reconditioned merchandise. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > sellers of other specific things
soaper?c1225
oilman1275
smear-monger1297
upholder1333
basket-seller?1518
broom-seller?1518
upholster1554
rod-woman1602
starchwoman1604
pin manc1680
colour seller1685
potato-woman1697
printseller1700
rag-seller1700
Greenwich barber1785
sandboy1821
iceman1834
umbrella man1851
fly-boy1861
snuff-boxera1871
pedlar1872
snake-boy1873
bric-a-brac man1876
tinwoman1884
resurrectionist1888
butch1891
paanwallah1955
1888 Longman's Mag. July 256 Some of the habitual buyers [of ostrich feathers] have nicknames, and those who do a local business and buy for re-selling are known as ‘resurrectionists’.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 4 Jan. 6/3 The Gnoleurs or ‘blocking resurrectionists’ skilfully touch up battered silk hats from over the Channel.
4. Horse Racing colloquial. A horse which unexpectedly recovers form or vigour during the course of a race. Obsolete. rare.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > horse by performance
lightweight1773
sticker1779
maiden1807
favourite1813
mile-horse1829
outsider1836
heavyweight1857
stayer1862
stoner1862
rank outsider1869
pick1872
pot1874
timer1881
resurrectionist1883
short head1883
pea1888
cert1889
stiffa1890
wrong 'un1889
on the mark1890
place horse1890
top-weight1892
miler1894
also-ran1895
selection1901
loser1902
hotpot1904
roughie1908
co-favourite1922
readier1922
springer1922
fav1935
scratch1938
no-hoper1943
shoo-in1950
scorer1974
1883 Standard 23 Oct. 3/2 There is a class of horses called ‘resurrectionists’,..and they either recover early form.., or..become animated, when they were supposed to be gone altogether, with..life and vigour.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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