resurrectionaryadj.

1813 E. S. Barrett Heroine III. xliv. 256 Up rose the poet, resurrectionary from his hempen coffin, and was beginning to clench his fist.

1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 7 Apr. 558/1 Old men and women, ugly and blind, who always seemed by resurrectionary process to be recalled out of the elements.

1876 T. G. Hake New Symbols 18 Behold man's resurrectionary birth!

1922 G. Saintsbury Let. Bk. 1 The penny post has killed it. Whether revival of the twopenny has caused it to exhibit any kind of corresponding resurrectionary symptoms is a matter which cannot yet be pronounced upon.

1973 A. Powell Temporary Kings i. 31 Trapnel's arrival..‘was Lazarus coming back from the Dead’... Free drinks were to be inferred on the earlier resurrectionary occasion.

1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 20 670/2 A resurrectionary surgeon mistaken in his latitude.

1837 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) VI. 359 A medical student..expressed his satisfaction at having escaped being taken upon a resurrectionary party.

1859 G. Wilson & A. Geikie Mem. E. Forbes (1861) iv. 92 A fellow-student,..with a gunshot wound received in a resurrectionary expedition to Musselburgh churchyard.

1984 M. Hollington Dickens & Grotesque v. 112 The ‘tortured forms’ thrown up by the historical process include the novel's central grotesque character, Jerry Cruncher, and his resurrectionary arts.