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revive (iou)



revive verb. LME.
[Old & mod. French revivre or late Latin revivere, from Latin RE- + vivere live.]
I. verb intrans.
Return to consciousness; recover from a faint. LME.
H. B. Stowe St Clare had fainted..but as Miss Ophelia applied restoratives, he revived. D. Pae 'She is reviving,' exclaimed Eustace.
Become active or operative again; return to a flourishing state; assume fresh life or vigour; (esp. of a former custom or practice) be restored to current use. Also, become valid again. L15.
Milton If..the radiant Sun..Extend his ev'ning beam, the fields revive. Observer The old religions of Buddhism and Confucianism are reviving in China. S. Weintraub Her spirits revived with the reappearance..of Feodora. G. Greene Tired of hack journalism..my desire to be a writer revived.
b. Return or come back again after a period of abeyance. M18.
c. Of a play etc.: be revived. E20.
Return or come back to life; live again. E16
Shakespeare 1 Henry VI Henry is dead and never shall revive. Popular Science Monthly Emotionally we revive in our children.
II. verb trans.
Restore to consciousness; bring back from a faint. LME.
Defoe This Water reviv'd his Father more than..the..Spirits I had given him.
Restore to life; bring back from death or the grave. LME.
T. Fuller I remember not in Scripture that God ever revived a brute Beast.
Make active or operative again; return to a flourishing state; give fresh life or vigour to; restore (esp. a former custom or practice) to current use. Also, re-enact, revalidate, (a law etc.) L15.
R. Lehmann Colours revived her spirits, textures soothed her. W. S. Churchill Reviving the obsolete claim to suzerainty, Henry denounced the Scots as rebels. P. H. Johnson I was much revived: the smell of coffee was stimulating. G. Thomas Two military bands the town had once had were to be revived.
b. Put on a new production of (an old play etc.) L18.
G. Greene An old silent film..The New Babylon, which the Forum recently revived. L. Gordon Murder in the Cathedral was revived successfully.
Chemistry. Convert or restore (a metal, esp. mercury) to or into its normal or pure form; regenerate from a mixture or compound. obsolete exc. Hist. L15.
Restore to clearness or freshness; renovate. M19.
revivement noun (now rare) (a) a reviving or restoring influence; (b) the action or an act of reviving; revival: L16.
revivingly adverb in a reviving manner M19.