单词 | redivivus |
释义 | redivivusadj. Brought back to life; come back to life, revived. Chiefly in figurative or literary use. Chiefly and now only as postmodifier. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > resurrection or revival > [adjective] uprisena1400 resuscitate1520 revived1563 redivive1586 raiseda1616 redivivus1640 reanimated1641 reviviscent1772 revivified1791 resurrected1804 reanimate1810 1640 S. Harding Sicily & Naples (front matter) Ben is deceas'd, and yet I dare avow. (Without that booke) Ben's redivivus now. 1675 R. Head (title) Proteus redivivus: or the art of wheedling. 1681 H. Neville (title) Plato redivivus. 1705 E. Ward (title) Hudibras redivivus. 1843 H. James Let. 11 May in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 47 I believe Jonathan Edwards redivivus in true blue would, after an honest study of the philosophy that has grown up since his day, make the best possible reconciler and critic of philosophy—far better than Schelling redivivus. 1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain ii. xxii. 589 He walked round and round his friend, called him Nicholas Randall redivivus, quoted Dogberry. 1937 Mind 45 492 Paton..has written the sort of defence of Kant against his critics which a Kant redivivus might have written in self-defence. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake iii. 490 She's write to him she's levt by me, Jenny Rediviva! 1974 Listener 28 Feb. 284/3 The belligerent women of all parties, tricoteuses redivivae. 1975 Times 5 May 15/2 Some still believe in Stormont Redivivus. 1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Mar. 45/1 One is tempted to resort to necromancy and to think of Poussin at this date as a sort of Titian redivivus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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