单词 | reviving |
释义 | revivingn. The action of revive v. (in various senses); an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] > restoration to flourishing condition resurrectionc1450 reviving1486 resuscitating1554 revivement1611 revival1619 revivifying1631 reviction1644 resuscitation1650 revification1657 reviviscence1711 revivification1756 anastasis1843 revitalizing1849 revitalization1850 the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > revivification vivification1612 revivification1643 reviving1677 revival1680 1486 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 57 New reviving in comforth to attaine your asstate. 1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters x. f. xvii/1 Cause can I se none, why we shulde of reason mo[r]e maruayle of ye reuyuyng of a dede man. 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. v. i. 80 This they did to the ende they might..hinder the reuiuing of the Sainctes. 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. i. 3 This I thankefully acknowledge..to giue you likewise some reuiuing. 1677 W. Harris tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. i. viii. 84 Reviving of Cinnabar into Quicksilver. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 118. ⁋12 I shall not allow the reviving of any one Part of that antient Mode. 1741 J. Edwards in Mem. E. Wheelock (1811) 210 There has been a reviving of religion amongst us of late. 1814 Ann Smith in Life (1851) 32 Return to thy Church in this corner. Grant some new revivings. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1122 All ores which contain more than 7 lbs. of lead, or 1 lb. of copper, per cent., are excluded from this reviving operation. 1865 Cassell's Illustr. Fam. Paper 15 Apr. 181/3 They are now past ‘clobbering’, ‘reviving’, or ‘translating’. 1922 E. Blunden Bonadventure v. 33 I doubt whether the author of London River..would write of the sea to-day in his translucent classical revivings. 1958 M. Adams tr. J. Ortega y Gasset Man & Crisis (1962) iii. 46 History is a reliving, a reviving, of the past. 2006 J. Goode Sci. of Wine viii. 71/2 Vines..become feeble because there is no reviving of the soil. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). revivingadj. 1. That is in the process of reviving; that regains strength, vigour, or consciousness. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [adjective] > restoring to flourishing condition > regaining flourishing condition reviving1548 resurging1594 revirescent1644 renascent1662 resurgent1746 reviviscent1772 reflorescent1826 recrudescent1833 renaissant1875 the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > [adjective] > recovering convalescent1656 recuperatory1656 reviving1682 recovering1693 convalescing1864 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John xi. f. lxxviii The reuiuyng soule, reuiueth by me, for I am the verye fountayne of resurreccion and lyfe. 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. G For now reuiuing ioy bids her reioyce. View more context for this quotation 1670 J. Dryden & W. Davenant Shakespeare's Tempest Prol. sig. A4 So, from old Shakespear's honour'd dust, this day Springs up and buds a new reviving Play. 1682 N. Tate & J. Dryden 2nd Pt. Absalom & Achitophel 3 Cherisht by her Bounties plenteous Spring, Reviving Widows smile, and Orphans sing. 1781 W. Cowper Heroism 73 Increasing commerce and reviving art Renew the quarrel. 1789 H. Walpole Lett. (1859) IX. 200 Their King..may prove their tyrant if reviving loyalty does not in a new frenzy force him to be so. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 47 All nature's children feel the matin spring Of life reviving, with reviving day. 1897 ‘O. Rhoscomyl’ For White Rose Arno (U.K. ed.) 125 With one hand upon the collar of the reviving man. 1921 H. Van Loon Story of Mankind lviii. 415 During the crusades, the burghers of the cities had been able to gather riches from the reviving trade between the east and the west. 1972 C. McKee Edward Preble xii. 230 The U.S. squadron's all-important role in the reviving economic life of Syracuse. 2003 W. Harris Levant ii. 69 The Fatimids used the reviving ports as a naval bridgehead in the region. 2. a. That revives a person or thing; stimulating, reinvigorating. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [adjective] cooling?c1425 comfortablec1440 refreshing1534 rousing1576 vegetant1576 reviving1579 refriscative1582 refrigerating1583 cordial1584 airy1591 freshing1591 animating1595 fertile1597 recreating1600 refective1611 refreshfula1614 comforting1623 refrigerant1626 erecting1654 cordialine1674 refocillating1675 corroboratinga1680 refectory1693 invigorating1694 restoring1697 freshful1734 enlivening1746–7 livelya1754 tonic1756 stimulatory1758 vivifying1768 energizing1786 stimulative1791 refreshening1807 vitalizing1813 stimulating1827 recuperative1843 invigorative1860 innerving1868 breezy1870 tonicizing1890 reparatory1893 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin ix. 472 We beseche you pronounce at last that reuiuing voyce of mercie and clemencie. 1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. iii. 300 By his labour and industrie, a certeine reuiuing or quickning warmth of faith was renewed in them. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. ii. 88 From you great Rome shall sucke Reuiuing blood. View more context for this quotation 1656 E. Reyner Rules Govt. Tongue 255 Comforts are reviving cordialls. 1709 E. Singer Love & Friendship 4 While..closing Flowers reviving Odors yield. 1750 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 570 I don't pity you,..who have such trees to shade and such reviving cascades to cool you. 1811 Ld. Byron Let. 30 Aug. (1973) II. 83 His society was..very reviving, but now he is gone & I am solitary & sullen. 1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 79 I..sat in a drift of rain by the side of the bank, to have a reviving pipe. 1974 L. Deighton Spy Story xxi. 221 There's nothing so reviving as a nice cup of tea. 1991 She May 27/4 We love her..pocket-size reviving sprays..perfect pick-me-ups for stuffy, smoky atmospheres. b. Law. Of an act: that re-enacts or revalidates something. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > [adjective] > enacting > renewing enactment reviving1663 1663 J. Heath Brief Chron. Late Intestine Warr (new ed.) iii. 698 The reviving Act of 1652. forbidding all Cavaliers..from giving voyces of electing, or to be Elected themselves upon their utmost peril. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 70 The suspending and repealing acts..and also the reviving act of 29 Hen. VI. 1848 Mass. Q. Rev. June 277 If..the reviving acts of 1777 and 1783 are to have any validity, they must be considered as original acts. 1875 Times 22 Jan. 10/6 Under the Statute Law Revision Act of 1863 that reviving Act was repealed. 1908 Univ. of Pennsylvania Law Rev. 56 38 This reviving act seems to have been allowed to become a law by lapse of time. 1950 J. P. Boyd in T. Jefferson Papers II. 434 1745 is in Hening, V, 326-44, and the reviving Act of 1785 in Hening, XII, 91-2. Derivatives reˈvivingly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [adverb] refreshingly1658 coolingly1662 revivingly1740 refreshfully1769 animatingly1778 restoratively1835 invigoratively1858 tonically1873 invigoratingly1874 zingily1951 zingingly1952 1740 E. Smith Forty Two Serm. II. viii. 141 All the Pain is in first tearing off our Wills from the vain sinful Objects they have so long lived and been accustomed to; tho' it is revivingly better at the same Time, and very profitable. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxxvi. 356 The air blew as freshly and revivingly upon me as it had ever blown. 1909 H. James Let. 9 May in H. James & E. Wharton Lett. (1990) ii. 113 I am ever so gratefully & tenderly & revivingly yours. 2004 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 30 Oct. 16 The views..are simply stunning, the air revivingly fresh and..there is walking to suit everyone. 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