resurrectionize

present singular third person resurrectionizes · participle present resurrectionizing · participle past resurrectionized · past resurrectionized

1. archaictransitiveTo 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