revivifiedadj.
/(ˌ)riːˈvɪvᵻfʌɪd/, U.S. /riˈvɪvəˌfaɪd/ 1. Chemistry. = revived adj. 2. Cf. revivify v. 2. Now historical.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [adjective] > of or relating to named chemical reactions or processes > having undergone revivification
revived1666
revivified1668
1668 G. Hartman tr. K. Digby Choice Receipts 168 To six ounces of this purified Mercury revivified, put one ounce of leaf Gold, making an Amalgame.
1784 W. Coxe Trav. Poland, Russia, Sweden, & Denmark III. xi. iii. 252 Being provided with some revivified mercury, twice distilled with fixed alkali by Mr. Winterberger.
1858 C. V. Walker tr. A. de la Rive Treat. Electr. III. vii. ii. 514 M. Becquerel, for the purpose of obtaining either revivified metals or metallic compounds.., has frequently employed [etc.].
2000 A. Pyle in R. Nola & H. Sankey After Popper, Kuhn & Feyerabend 112 Carbon has a higher affinity for oxygen than the familiar metals, and can therefore rob their calces of oxygen, yielding the revivified metal and ‘fixed air’.
2. Restored to a flourishing or vigorous condition; renewed, reinvigorated.
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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [adjective] > restored
reparelledc1450
reintegrate1495
redintegrate1501
restored1538
regenerate1613
recruited1648
redintegrated1655
restituted1728
revivified1774
rehabilitated1837
renovated1849
done-over1874
reconditioned1910
rehabbed1967
1774 W. Hooper Rational Recreations IV. xlii. 142 (heading) The revivified rose.
1805 M. Warren Hist. Amer. Revol. I. ix. 350 The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans, in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.
1892 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends (1893) 183 His pulse bounding with revivified hope.
1921 P.S. Mowrer Balkanized Europe vi. i. 292 To keep the peace, it will perhaps be necessary, when the time comes, to make concessions to a revivified Russia.
1962 H. Goldberg Life Jean Jaurès ii. ix. 229 Now a revivified Right, drawn from several traditions, came into the open as an antirepublican party.
2000 T. Nairn Pariah (2002) 164 I am fighting for this revivified and, yes, cosmopolitan state.
3. Restored or returned to life.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > resurrection or revival > [adjective]
uprisena1400
resuscitate1520
revived1563
redivive1586
raiseda1616
redivivus1640
reanimated1641
reviviscent1772
revivified1791
resurrected1804
reanimate1810
1791 W. Belsham Ess. III. xxvii. 80 A glorious material vehicle was..to be provided by Divine power for the reception of the revivified spirit.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxvi. 125 Embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come.
1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos vi. 80 It is a life in which the raised and revivified body is married to the lost soul!
1920 Open Court May 289 The ‘water of life’ poured out by Hathor (or Nut) was conceived to be transmuted to blood for the revivified deceased.
1952 A. J. Cronin Adventures in Two Worlds i. iv. 30 The world suddenly went mad and, like a revivified corpse, embarked on a wild and frantic spree.
2004 H. Cox When Jesus came to Harvard iii. xxvi. 287 The risen Jesus was neither a revivified corpse nor an ectoplasmic phantom, but something new and unique.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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