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resurrectionize en · VERB

Etymology

From resurrection + -ize.

Meanings

1. (archaic, transitive) To resurrect, or raise from the dead.
   • March 14 1804, Robert Southey, letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge you will stare at the catalogue of dead authors whom I shall have to resurrectionise
2. To remove a body from its grave (illegally, for dissection); to engage in bodysnatching.
   • "Remember, the law now punishes with transportation those who resurrectionize, and those who encourage resurrectionists." 1846, George W.M. Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 1, London: George Vickers, page 338:

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