α. 1600s– reviviscent.
β. 1800s– revivescent.
reviviscentadj.
/ˌrɛvᵻˈvɪsnt/, U.S. /ˌrɛvəˈvɪs(ə)nt/ 1. Characterized by or capable of revival.
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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [adjective] > restoring to flourishing condition > restored to flourishing condition > able to be
revivable1632
reviviscenta1646
regenerable1663
resuscitable1842
a1646 W. Raleigh Reliquiæ Raleighanæ (1679) iii. 107 The Schools therefore do accordingly distinguish of opera mortua and mortifera, viva and mortificata, and rediviva too, of dead works and deadly, of living and mortified and reviviscent also.
1747 Gen. Descr. All Trades p. vii Society, in its reviviscent, though degenerated, State would ever have great Deference to the three Professions.
1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 183 The ‘Anthology’ is revivescent under the eye of Blind Tobin.
1854 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1872) I. 51 How irrepressible was that desire, how reviviscent, how indestructible.
1952 A. J. Liebling Chicago ii. 82 Here is no spirit like Brooklyn's, perennially reviviscent through disastrous years and rising to ecstasy every time the Dodgers take both halves of a doubleheader.
1995 M. S. Fish Democracy from Scratch vi. 216 One may assume that their [sc. the miners'] political muscle remains formidable and potentially reviviscent.
2. Chiefly Biology. Returning, or having the power of returning, to animation or life following dormancy or death; of or relating to reviviscence.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > resurrection or revival > [adjective]
uprisena1400
resuscitate1520
revived1563
redivive1586
raiseda1616
redivivus1640
reanimated1641
reviviscent1772
revivified1791
resurrected1804
reanimate1810
the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [adjective] > restoring to flourishing condition > regaining flourishing condition
reviving1548
resurging1594
revirescent1644
renascent1662
resurgent1746
reviviscent1772
reflorescent1826
recrudescent1833
renaissant1875
1772 C. Berrow Theol. Diss. Predestination 36 The former constituting what the Evangelist calls the first resurrection, the latter consisting of those reviviscent souls, whom he stiles, the rest of the dead.
1808 J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. XXVI. 1870 The former [sc. Algæ] are more commonly durable, and especially revivescent on the application of moisture.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. xi. 322 These pseudo-leeches..possess the same reviviscent powers.
1894 M. C. Cooke Fungi (ed. 5) vii. 148 Another species..resembles more closely Puccinia, from which it is chiefly distinguished by its reviviscent character.
1937 Mag. Digest June 14/2 The Tardigrades who live under the same conditions as the Rotifers provide another type of reviviscent creature.
2001 Amer. Fern Jrnl. 91 228 This reviviscent species has physiological characters that confer resistance to hydric stress.
3. Refreshing; reinvigorating. Now rare.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > resurrection or revival > [adjective] > causing
revivicating1814
reviviscent1823
resurrecting1846
1823 Time's Telescope: Guide to Almanack 282 We return to partake the reviviscent beverage of China's leaf.
1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge II. ix. 122 The piece of news acted as a reviviscent breath to that old view of his.
1899 M. N. Murfree Story of Old Fort Loudon vii. 189 The cold had now a reviviscent tang—not the bleak, benumbing, icy deadness of the winter's thrall.
1905 A. Johnstone Recoll. R. L. Stevenson in Pacific x. 170 The reviviscent climate of the South Seas at once checked the waste of vitality, and largely increased his capacity for literary labour.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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