单词 | revivify |
释义 | revivifyv. 1. a. transitive. To reanimate or restore to life. Also: to raise from the dead or from the grave.figurative in earliest use. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > resurrection or revival > [verb (transitive)] quickOE arearc1000 raisec1175 reara1325 upraisec1340 quickena1382 again-raisec1384 araisea1400 resuscea1400 revokea1413 recovera1425 revivec1425 suscitec1430 resuscite?c1450 risea1500 relive?1526 to call againa1529 resuscitate1532 requicken1576 refetch1599 reanimate1611 reinspire1611 reinanimatea1631 recreate1631 revivify1631 redivive1634 revivificate1660 resurrection1661 resurrect1773 re-embody1791 revivicate1798 re-energize1803 resurrectionize1804 revitalize1869 reimpress1883 1631 R. Fludd Answer vnto M. Foster iii. i. 14 It is but one Spirit, but in diuers properties, that congealeth, and as it were, killeth the Spirit of the moueable Element of Ayre, and fixeth it by his Northerne blast into Snow, Frost, Ice, and Haile; and againe reuiuifieth it by a Southerne blast. 1684 S. E. Answer Remarks upon Dr. H. More 174 The first Resurrection is not an emerging above the Regions of Mortality, by being revivified into glorified bodies. 1744 T. Stackhouse New Hist. Bible Apparatus p. xii That the gross Matter, which they saw, laid in the Grave.., should ever be rais'd..and revivify'd. 1792 R. Lucas Serm. for Severn Humane Soc. 5 We..can only hope..to revivify the bodies of our fellow-creatures, which, though apparently dead, have only the principles of life suspended. a1849 J. C. Mangan Coll. Wks.: Poems (1997) III. 417 I would spring up, revivified, reborn, A Living Soul again. 1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World (1884) 86 The biologist cannot devitalise a plant or an animal and revivify it again. 1921 Jrnl. Soc. Oriental Res. 5 47 The kings, the offspring of the gods, were destined to die, to be revivified, and to live in heaven. 1983 S. Brust Jhereg ii. 36 Just so that he ends up dead, with no chance of anyone revivifying him. 2001 M. W. Dickie Magic & Magicians in Greco-Roman World vii. 197 Public displays consist in healing the lame, curing blindness and revivifying corpses. b. transitive. To revive or reinvigorate; to restore to a flourishing or vigorous condition. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > refresh or invigorate [verb (transitive)] akeleOE restOE comfort1303 ease1330 quickc1350 recurea1382 refresha1382 refetec1384 restorec1384 affilea1393 enforcec1400 freshc1405 revigour?a1425 recomfortc1425 recreatec1425 quicken?c1430 revive1442 cheerc1443 refection?c1450 refect1488 unweary1530 freshen1532 corroborate1541 vige?c1550 erect?1555 recollect?1560 repose1562 respite1565 rouse1574 requicken1576 animate1585 enlive1593 revify1598 inanimate1600 insinew1600 to wind up1602 vigorize1603 inspiritc1610 invigour1611 refocillate1611 revigorate1611 renovate1614 spriten1614 repaira1616 activate1624 vigour1636 enliven1644 invigorate1646 rally1650 reinvigorate1652 renerve1652 to freshen up1654 righta1656 re-enlivena1660 recruita1661 enlighten1667 revivify1675 untire1677 reanimate1694 stimulate1759 rebrace1764 refreshen1780 brisken1799 irrigate1823 tonic1825 to fresh up1835 ginger1844 spell1846 recuperate1849 binge1854 tone1859 innerve1880 fiercen1896 to tone up1896 to buck up1909 pep1912 to zip up1927 to perk up1936 to zizz up1944 hep1948 to zing up1948 juice1964 1675 E. Cocker Morals 53 Sleep..Revivifies the Brain, the Spirits chears. 1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. i. 3 The arts, when neglected, always degenerate. Encouragement must keep them up, or a genius revivify them. 1795 M. J. Naylor Inantity & Mischief Vulgar Superstitions Pref. p. v. The belief of these extravagances..has again been nourished and revivified. 1841 Lancet 12 June 398/1 He who raises the spirits and revivifies hope, accomplishes often what no tonic can perform. 1863 M. E. Braddon John Marchmont's Legacy II. i. 3 Last night's festivities seem to have revivified me. 1921 H. N. Brailsford Russ. Worker's Republic iv. 74 The whole economy which populated and provisioned the towns must somehow be revivified. 1956 W. S. Churchill Hist. Eng.-speaking Peoples II. vi. vi. 302 On the coasts of Newfoundland English fishermen had revivified the earliest colony of the Crown. 2006 N. G. Jablonski Skin x. 161 The variety of procedures and materials that claim to revivify skin is vast and growing. c. intransitive. To become revived or reinvigorated. ΚΠ 1771 S. Duitsch Short Acct. Wonderful Conversion Solomon Duitsch 115 This very desire has revivified in me so powerfully. 1828 Sketches Mod. Greece I. 380 There is something indeed so cheering in the first dawn..; the ideas seem to revivify with the light of it. 1855 Hunt's Merchants' Mag. Apr. 435 Trade appeared to revivify, and the same year 30,000l. more was issued on the same terms. 1909 Rep. 14th Ann. Meeting Maryland State Bar Assoc. 311 Every other department of learning was revivifying under the influence of renewed study of the classical texts. 1999 Yoga Jrnl. Sept.–Oct. 66/1 That's how I knew that his anima—his soul—had been touched and was beginning to revivify. d. intransitive. To revive or invigorate something. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > become refreshed or invigorated [verb (intransitive)] > make refreshed or invigorated resta1400 quicken1581 renerve1652 revivify1787 1787 World 27 Jan. 1/3 That ray terrific..which fires where e'er it falls, Exalts, dejects, revivifies, appalls. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. II. 135 It is a food..which, when it does not revivify, smothers. 1879 H. George Progress & Poverty x. v. 495 The struggle that must either revivify, or convulse in ruin, is near at hand. 1918 E. S. Kite Beaumarchais I. x. 218 His tears seemed like the dew which revivifies. 1991 S. Winchester Pacific (1992) 115 The government..agreed to spend a billion Singapore dollars..to preserve, to revivify, to refurbish and recreate. 2. Chemistry. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > subject to chemical reactions or processes [verb (transitive)] > subject to named chemical reaction or process > subject to revivification revive1649 revivify1668 1668 G. Hartman tr. K. Digby Choice Receipts 168 Sublime Mercury..seven times (beginning with the best Venice Crystalline Mercury) revivifying it after every sublimation. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Revivification Gold, and other Metals,..may be recovered or revivified into running Mercury. 1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 221 If..a degree of heat be applied greater than is necessary to..revivify a metal. 1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. v. 63 When this calx is heated, the mercury is ‘revivified’ and recovered in the metallic state. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > undergo chemical reactions or processes [verb (intransitive)] > undergo chemical reactions or processes (named) > undergo revivification revivea1500 revivify1728 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Revivification Having reduced it [sc. mercury] into Water, Turbith, into ashes, &c. it revivified, and resumed its first Form. 1758 R. Dossie Elaboratory laid open 211 The operation should not be too much prolonged; lest the quicksilver revivify, or reassume its fluid state. 1790 R. Kerr tr. A. Lavoisier Elements Chem. iii. viii. 445 All the oxyds of mercury are capable of revivifying without addition. c. transitive. To regenerate or reactivate (a catalyst, adsorbent, or other reagent, esp. charcoal). Also intransitive: to undergo this process. Now rare. ΚΠ 1824 tr. Dict. Technologique in Techn. Repository 6 xxiv. 132 This induces me to add a few observations, on the secondary employment of animal charcoal, by revivifying it [Fr. au moyen d'une revivification]. 1885 Rep. Proc. 1884 (Assoc. Gas Engineers & Managers) 94 His practice..was to allow the oxide to remain in a heap, as thrown out of the purifier, for four days, so as to get hot;..and, when spread, it revivified in about 15 hours. 1890 T. E. Thorpe Dict. Appl. Chem. I. 171 A description of the kilns most generally in use for revivifying char. 1919 Amer. Gas Assoc. Monthly Apr. 184/2 We found that if we could take the foul oxide out of the solution it revivified very rapidly. 1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) xxxvi. 306 When all the ferric oxide has been used up, it can be revivified by moistening, and exposing it to air. 1971 Materials & Technol. II. xi. 695 A bone char can be revivified up to 200 times.., after which its efficiency falls too low for practical re-use. Derivatives reˈvivifying n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] > restoration to flourishing condition resurrectionc1450 reviving1486 resuscitating1554 revivement1611 revival1619 revivifying1631 reviction1644 resuscitation1650 revification1657 reviviscence1711 revivification1756 anastasis1843 revitalizing1849 revitalization1850 the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [adjective] > restoring to flourishing condition regeneratinga1556 resuscitative1611 revivifying1631 resuscitating1731 regenerative1871 1631 R. Fludd Answer vnto M. Foster ii. iii. 83 The reuiuifying of the sopified spirit in the oyntment. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening xv. 333 The substantial and revivifying Form of the Plant. 1866 L. H. Sigourney Lett. of Life ix. 237 This revivifying of scenes and events of other days made us all young again. 1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 192 Even the showers of rain had a revivifying effect. 1933 W. Soutar Diary 5 Apr. (1991) iv. 30 How many of our experiences we forget because the revivifying impulse is never encountered. 2006 F. A. De Armas Quixotic Frescoes i. 7 In Michelangelo the resurrection is also a revivifying of the ancient world. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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