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单词 resurrectionize
释义

resurrectionize

English

Etymology

resurrection + -ize

Verb

resurrectionize (third-person singular simple present resurrectionizes, present participle resurrectionizing, simple past and past participle resurrectionized)

  1. (transitive) To 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.
    • 1846, Reynolds, George W.M., The Mysteries of London volume 1, London: George Vickers, page 338:
      "Remember, the law now punishes with transportation those who resurrectionize, and those who encourage resurrectionists."

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for resurrectionize in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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