Dictionary

revivify en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɹiːˈvɪvɪfʌɪ/ (UK)

Etymology

Partly from French revivifier and partly from Latin revīvificō, corresponding to re- + vivify.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To reanimate, bring back to life.
   • In cautiously revivifying dead queens—and Time's appearance suggests that this recuperation is dependent on the hiatus—the play opens up a space, if an uncertain space, within which to begin a critique of current gender politics. 1994, M. Lindsey Kaplan, Katherine Eggert, ““Good queen, my lord, good queen” - Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in “The Winter's Tale””, in Renaissance Drama, volume 25, →DOI, page 111 of 89–118:
   • His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come, and to endure always, as now; […] 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 125:
2. (transitive) To reinvigorate or revitalize.
   • Near-synonym: rejuvenate
   • Despite the patrician allure of much that Choiseul attempted, a renovating, technocratic spirit was abroad during his tenure of office which sought to rationalize and revivify government service [...]. 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 256:
3. (archaic, transitive) To reactivate (a catalyst, reagent etc.).
4. (archaic, intransitive) To become effective again as a reagent etc.

Forms

Coordinates

reactivate · reactivate

Deriveds

revivification

Relateds

revivificate

Synonyms

revive · revive · rejuvenate

Translations (1)

es revivificar (transitive)