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revivification|rɪˌvɪvɪfɪˈkeɪʃən|
[See prec. So F. revivification, Sp. -acion, It. -azione.]
1. Restoration or return from death to life.
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 265 At the first sound [of the trumpet] will ensue a revivification of angells and men. 1675Woodhead, etc. Paraphr. S. Paul 116 The soul owes its happy immortality as much to Christ's rising again, as the body doth its revivification. 1756Gentl. Mag. XXVI. 213 The earthquake is said..immediately afterwards to be after their death and revivification. 1838Poe A. G. Pym Wks. 1864 IV. 77 A doubt that the apparition of Rogers was indeed a revivification of his disgusting corpse. 1875E. White Life in Christ ii. ix. (1878) 96 Christ's own resurrection was the revivification even of the body which had died.
fig.1807E. S. Barrett Rising Sun I. 192 As the revivification of nature from the death of winter had again brought round the season. 1848Dickens Dombey xxvii, The maid..collected the ashes of Cleopatra and carried them away.., ready for to-morrow's revivification.
b. Nat. Hist. Recovery or awakening from a state of torpidity.
1801Encycl. Brit. Suppl. II. 401/2 Revivification, in physiology, the recalling to life of animals apparently dead. 1815Kirby & Sp. Entomol. I. ii. 72 The seeming revivification of the dead chrysalis. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. Introd. 3 This revivification may take place after months, or even years, of arrested life.
2. Chem. Reduction or restoration of a metal, etc., after combination, to its original state.
1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §48, I have often beheld as a miracle, that artificiall resurrection and revivification of Mercury. 1680Boyle Exp. Chem. Princ. iv. 206 Salts or Sulphurs..when the Quicksilver is driven from them in the revivification. 1782Phil. Trans. LXXVIII. 64 Which contributed to the revivification of a larger quantity of mercury. 1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 41 The same air is produced during the revivification of metallic calces by charcoal. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 1123 As soon as the revivification is complete, the casks must be filled with water.
b. (See quot.)
1882Lock Spon's Encycl. v. 1853 By ‘revivification’ of the [animal] charcoal, is meant the separation from it of those saccharine and other matters which it absorbs in the filtering process.
3. Revival, restoration; renewal of vigour or activity.
1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters III. 89 The milkiness and revivification of color ensued. 1812Shelley Proposals Prose Wks. 1888 I. 280 One truth that has been discovered can never die, but will prevent the revivification of its apportioned opposite falsehood. 1863Hawthorne Our Old Home 76 The revivification and improvement of its native manhood. 1880Disraeli Endym. lix, ‘I am thinking of what is beneath all this,’ replied Nigel. ‘A great revivification.’ |