Revive /(?)/
Re·vive
Revive
v. i.
imp. & p. p. Revived; p. pr. & vb. n. Reviving
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To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived.
- Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
- To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal. (Old Chem.)
Revive
v. t.
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To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived.
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To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts.
Your coming, friends, revives me.
- Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
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To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had.
- To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination. (Old Chem.)