单词 | resurrector |
释义 | resurrectorn. 1. = resurrectionist n. 1. Now historical and rare. 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 1861 R. Quinn Heather Lintie 94 Sin' he has fled his daddy's trade, Wha genuine Resurrector Was mony a day. 1883 Atchison (Kansas) Globe 5 Jan. I don't know where the resurrectors get the bodies. I only know that when a man brings us a corpse we buy it if we think it is lawful—that is, the body of an unreclaimed pauper. 1978 P. O'Brian Desolation Island iii. 87 I recognised a resurrector, and when there is a brisk demand for corpses, the resurrection-men sometimes have an expeditious way of satisfying it. 2. A person who brings the dead back to life, or who revives or revitalizes a person who or thing which is inactive, disused, or forgotten. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > resurrection or revival > [noun] > one who raisera1400 resurrector1864 1864 Cincinnati Enquirer 4 Mar. 2/5 Fellow citizens, by the great God (hiccup) and Resurrector of everybody, I swear (hiccup) I am responsible for all this! and God damn you, I led this whole thing. 1890 T. De W. Talmage From Manger to Throne 575 Is this Jesus, the comforter at Bethany, the resurrector at Nain? 1920 Science 6 Feb. 124/1 These resurrectors of a buried but not yet dead science were free-thinkers. 1959 M. M. Auerbach Conservative Illusion iv. 110 The agrarians took up the championship of the yeoman as resurrector of Conservatism. 2008 Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.) (Nexis) 12 Dec. 25 The differences between Nixon's slayers Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and his unwitting resurrector, British talk-show host David Frost, couldn't be more pronounced. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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