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reviviscence|rɛvɪˈvɪsəns|
[ad. L. type *revīviscentia, f. pres. pple. of revīviscĕre to revive. So F. réviviscence, Pg. reviviscencia, It. -enza. See also revivescence.]
1. Return to life or animation.
1626Donne Serm. lxxiii. 746 Corne that hath in nature a disposition to a Reviviscence and a Repullulation. 1669Boyle Contn. New Exp. ii. (1682) 93 The Adder remained in the same state, and gave no hope of reviviscence. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 197 The reviviscence of Anne Green, innocently condemned to die. 1748Phil. Trans. XLV. 285 Some subtil vapour, issuing from their bodies, which might have been conducive to their reviviscence. 1774Ibid. LXIV. 432 On the Reviviscence of some Snails kept 15 years. 1836–9Todd's Cycl. Anat. II. 774/1 The calls of hunger are probably the principal cause of reviviscence.
transf.1703Whitby Acts xvii. 32 Stoicks who asserted a Conflagration, and Reviviscence of the World. 1786A. M'Lean Christ's Commiss. Wks. 1846 II. 112 Our reviviscence, or resurrection to a new life of holiness.
2. Revival; restoration to a flourishing or vigorous condition.
1711Vind. Sacheverell 94 If you can bury this in Oblivion, you think it would be a good Step to your own Reviviscence. 1782R. Cumberland Anecd. Painters II. 184 A spectator naturally regards these instances of reviviscence in the art with favour. 1814Berington Lit. Hist. Middle Ages i. (1846) 39 The encouragement which the Antonines gave to the Arts was..only that apparent reviviscence which is the precursor of death. 1844in MacEwen Life J. Cairns (1895) 186 This spurious reviviscence of paganism is a blot upon the whole Munich School of Art. 1875M. Pattison Casaubon 379 The hagiological temper..which had enjoyed a forced reviviscence during the catholic reaction. |