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revivification en · NOUN

Etymology

Originally from Latin revīvificāt- (past participial stem of revīvificō (“revivify”)) + -ion. In later use, from revivify (see -fication). Compare later revivificate, Latin revīvificātiō (1567 in a British source), and French révivification. By surface analysis, re- (“again, anew”) + vivification (“giving of life”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of reviving; restoration of life.
   • 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! 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 73:
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The reduction of a metal from a state of combination to its metallic state.
   • 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. 1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici:

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