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/rɪvˈaɪvɪŋ/ /rivˈaɪvɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Revive v. t.

1.

To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate. "Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived."

2.

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."

3.

Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.

4.

To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. "Revive the libels born to die." "The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had."

5.

(Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.

Revive v. i. (past & past part. revived; pres. part. reviving)

1.

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."

2.

Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.

3.

(Old Chem.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.

adjective

Reviving adj., n. Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating.

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... he, let me judge of that, as well as you, Pamela. These ladies know a good part of your story; and, let me tell you, what they know is more to your credit than mine; so that if I have no averseness to reviving the occasion, you may very well bear it. Said he, I will put you out of your pain, Pamela: here it is: and took ...

— Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded • Samuel Richardson

... extension of the territories of the Duchy of Warsaw, under the treaty of Schoenbrunn. This alarmed the court of St. Petersburg, by reviving the notion of Polish independence, and Buonaparte was in vain urged to give his public guarantee that no national government should be re-established in ...

— The History of Napoleon Buonaparte • John Gibson Lockhart

... and those churches are not blessed with the presence and favor of the Holy Ghost, they need not be at any loss for the reason. And if they should never again, while they continue in this state, be blessed with the reviving influence of God's Spirit, they need not be at any loss for the reason. Their own members are exerting a strong and fatal influence against it; and that too after Divine Providence has shown them what they are doing. And in many such cases there is awful guilt with regard ...

— Select Temperance Tracts • American Tract Society

... her senses, partly from the effects of cold water sprinkled upon her face by the tender-hearted Juanita, and perhaps there might be something reviving in a soft kiss that the young seaman could not avoid dropping upon her lips as he supported her in his arms. I have already intimated my incompetency to describe a parting scene between two lovers, for reasons then specified: ...

— An Old Sailor's Yarns • Nathaniel Ames

... patron of archery to whom all who have read Two Little Savages must be eternally grateful. Not only has he given us a reviving touch of the outdoors, but he puts the bow and arrow in its true setting, a ...

— Hunting with the Bow and Arrow • Saxton Pope

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