revivifiern.
/(ˌ)riːˈvɪvᵻfʌɪə/, U.S. /riˈvɪvəˌfaɪ(ə)r/ 1. A person who or thing which revivifies something or someone (in various senses of the verb).
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1836 J. Wheeler Manchester 457 The great revivifiers of Shakespeare's impersonations.
1884 Sunday Critic (Logansport, Indiana) 7 Sept. As a tonic and revivifier it is simply wonderful.
1930 Jrnl. Oriental Soc. 50 184 This same epithet, ‘the One Making-alive’, i.e. Life-giver, Revivifier, is applied again elsewhere to Jesus.
1978 19th Cent. Music 1 259/1 His role as revivifier of the rules.
1999 B. Brewster & F. Broughton Last Night DJ saved my Life (2000) ii. viii. 192 The world and his wife..had gone disco. It was a musical panacea and the instant revivifier of any ham entertainer's career.
2. A kiln or similar apparatus used in the revivification of charcoal (cf. revivification n. 2b).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > [noun] > clearing charcoal from refuse > device for
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1859 U.S. Patent 26,457 2/2 In this revivifier the smoke and gas are carried out into the smoke-stack by means of two suitable chimneys made in the inclosing-wall.
1882 C. G. W. Lock Spons' Encycl. v. 1853 The black..descends into the driers.., enters the revivifiers..at about 90°.
1911 O. Nagel Lay-out Chem. & Metall. Plants xxi. 184 The bone-black..enters the revivifier consisting of a slowly rotating corrugated drum.
1971 Materials & Technol. II. xi. 696 In the larger revivifiers through-put rates of 8 to 9 tons of wet char per hour can be achieved.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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