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reviviscent, a.|rɛvɪˈvɪsənt|
[ad. pres. pple. of L. revīviscĕre. So F. réviviscent, Pg. reviviscente. See also revivescent.]
1. Returning to life or animation; reviving.
1778J. Aikin Thomson's Seasons Ess. p. xxi, The poet..begins with representing the reviviscent plants emerging..in numbers. 1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. I. xi. 322 These pseudo-leeches..possess the same reviviscent powers. 1854J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. (1872) I. 51 How irrepressible was that desire, how reviviscent, how indestructible.
2. Causing renewed life.
1886T. Hardy Mayor Casterbr. II. ix. 122 The piece of news acted as a reviviscent breath to that old view of his. |