revivableadj.

1632 T. E. Lawes Womens Rights iv. 291 If hee which holdeth by fealty and xij. d. hauing a wife, sell the tenancie to his Lord, and the estate is executed, the Tenants wife shall be indowed sans attendancie, for the Seignory extinct is not reuiuable.

1641 Office & Dutie Executors 32 The Velleities or disposing parts of the Will, are revocable and revivable by new Publication as aforesaid.

1715 F. Grant Law, Relig., & Educ. ii. 38 The new Nature: being no less than the Product of a new Creation of Qualities extinct, not revivable by the Soul it self.

1759 W. Lewis tr. C. Neumann Chem. Wks. ii. 475 The calx of Iron precipitated..in making vitriolated Tartar, is scarce at all revivable into malleable Iron again.

1810 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 288 My zeals, however, though never lasting, are always revivable.

1860 All Year Round 18 Feb. 390 Living animalcules..are revivable in this state.

1890 M. Maher Psychol. 79 The very revivable and associable character of its sensations.

1925 D. Drake Mind & its Place in Nature xix. 249 Vigorous and integrated mental life, that will be revivable in memory, is evoked..by..emotionally stimulating situations.

1970 R. R. Ruether Radical Kingdom iii. xiv. 257 The utopian side of the hippie movement was indeed on the track of an ancient but ever revivable form of contemplative utopian community.

1996 Economist 17 Aug. 41/3 They are no longer ready for immediate use, but they are revivable if need be.

1884 Mind 9 350 What kind of agency can it..be..that revivably stores up the memory of departed phenomena?

2003 Playbill 30 Sept. 34/2 Signature Theatre Company..devotes each season to the works—new or revivably used—of a single playwright.