resurrectionize
English
Etymology
resurrection + -ize
Verb
resurrectionize (third-person singular simple present resurrectionizes, present participle resurrectionizing, simple past and past participle resurrectionized)
- (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
- March 14 1804, Robert Southey, letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 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."
- 1846, Reynolds, George W.M., The Mysteries of London volume 1, London: George Vickers, page 338:
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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)