reviction

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin revivere, revictum (to live again), from re- (re-) + vivere (to live).

Noun

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reviction (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) return to life
    • c. 1682, Thomas Browne, letter to a friend
      to arise from the grave to return again into it, is but an uncomfortable reviction

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for reviction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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