revivify

present singular third person revivifies · participle present revivifying · participle past revivified · past revivified

1. transitiveTo 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

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   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

   Synonyms: revive

2. transitiveTo reinvigorate or revitalize.

   Near-synonym: rejuvenate

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   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

   Synonyms: revive, rejuvenate

3. archaictransitivechemistryTo reactivate (a catalyst, reagent etc.).
4. archaicintransitivechemistryTo become effective again as a reagent etc.