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Reviving   /rɪvˈaɪvɪŋ/  /rivˈaɪvɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Revive  v. t.  
1.
To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate. "Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived."
2.
To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension. "Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts." "Your coming, friends, revives me."
3.
Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
4.
To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. "Revive the libels born to die." "The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had."
5.
(Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.


Revive  v. i.  (past & past part. revived; pres. part. reviving)  
1.
To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. "The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived."
2.
Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
3.
(Old Chem.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.


adjective
Reviving  adj., n.  Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating.





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"Reviving" Quotes from Famous Books



... hand, this belief has received a succession of shocks from other considerations. The resuscitation of the flesh has become more and more incredible. Bishop Westcott endeavoured to meet this feeling by reviving the Pauline notion of a body of "Spirit," and was followed by Bishop Gore in so doing. The process was helped by the fact that in the English creed resurrectio carnis is translated resurrection of the body, so that ...
— Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity • Kirsopp Lake
... post-Communist states, the Czech Republic has been recovering from recession since mid-1999. Growth in 2000-01 was led by exports to the EU, especially Germany, and foreign investment, while domestic demand is reviving. Uncomfortably high fiscal and current account deficits could be future problems. Unemployment is gradually declining as job creation continues in the rebounding economy; inflation is up to 4.7% but still moderate. ...
— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government
... astonished at the sight of the relief I sent them, and at the appearance of loaves of bread—things they had not seen since their coming to that miserable place; how often they crossed it and blessed it as bread sent from heaven; and what a reviving cordial it was to their spirits to taste it, as also the other things I had sent for their supply; and, after all, they would have told me something of the joy they were in at the sight of a boat and pilots, to carry them away to the ...
— The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe • Daniel Defoe
... coursers stood, And splendid chariot in the rear, they came, Then Troy-ward drove him groaning as he went. Ere long arriving at the pleasant stream Of eddied Xanthus, progeny of Jove, 520 They laid him on the bank, and on his face Pour'd water; he, reviving, upward gazed, And seated on his hams black blood disgorged Coagulate, but soon relapsing, fell Supine, his eyes with pitchy darkness veil'd, 525 And all his powers still torpid by the blow. Then, ...
— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer
... nervous system pro tem., and render clearer the consciousness that is trying to use it and manifest through it—just as one's own consciousness might be rendered clearer by the same device? Of course such a process might have the effect (especially at first) of breaking the trance altogether, and of reviving the medium. But if the medium understood the experiment beforehand, and the process were also explained to the controls, it is reasonable to suppose that—after some trials at any rate—the trance would not be broken, and that better, clearer results would ...
— The Problems of Psychical Research - Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal • Hereward Carrington


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