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resuscitative, a.|rɪˈsʌsɪteɪtɪv| [See resuscitate v. and -ive. So F. ressuscitatif.] Tending to resuscitate; revivifying, reviving.
1611Cotgr., Resuscitatif, resuscitatiue, reuiuing, raising vp from death to life. 1805Spirit Publ. Jrnls. IX. 127 They..had..recourse to the resuscitative process of the Humane Society. 1816Bp. Jebb Let. in Life 553 Our Lord's three resuscitative miracles. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xxxi. (1859) II. 227, I am not satisfied, I say, with the term reproduction for the process by which the dormant thought or affection is aroused... Perhaps the Resuscitative Faculty would have been better. 1891J. Aitchison Signa Christi vi. 237 The self-renewing or resuscitative power of Christianity. |