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revivification

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Etymology

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Compare French révivification.

Noun

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revivification (countable and uncountable, plural revivifications)

  1. The act of reviving; restoration of life.
    • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 73:
      Fir-cones and snakes from their very forms were emblems of male fertility; snakes, too, from their habit of gliding out of their own skins with renewed brightness and color were suggestive of resurrection and re-vivification; pigs and sows by their exceeding fruitfulness would in their hour of sacrifice remind old mother Earth of what was expected from her!
  2. (chemistry, obsolete) The reduction of a metal from a state of combination to its metallic state.
    • 1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici:
      I have often beheld as a miracle, that artificiall resurrection and revivification of Mercury, how being mortified into a thousand shapes, it assumes again its owne, and returns to its numericall selfe.