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Revived

Revive \Re*vive"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Revived; p. pr. & vb. n. Reviving.] [F. revivere, L. revivere; pref. re- re- + vivere to live. See Vivid.]

  1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
    --Shak.

    The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived.
    --1 Kings xvii. 2

  2. 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.

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revived

vb. (en-past of: revive)

WordNet
revived
  1. adj. restored to consciousness or life or vigor; "felt revived hope" [ant: unrevived]

  2. given fresh life or vigor or spirit; "stirred by revived hopes" [syn: reanimated]

Usage examples of "revived".

The fame of the Roman arms was revived by that warlike and successful emperor, and he boasted, with a just pride, that, having received the empire oppressed with foreign and domestic wars, he left it established in profound, universal, and honorable peace.

Roman emperor revived the idea of those ancient chiefs of slaves and gladiators, whose savage power had left a deep impression of terror and detestation.

Antonines, whose virtues he revived in his own conduct, and celebrated in an elegant poem of thirty books.

The noble ardor of the consul revived the languid spirit of the senate.

Discipline was revived, and with the advice of the senate many wise laws were enacted by their imperial ministers, who endeavored to restore a civil constitution on the ruins of military tyranny.

He revived the courage of his troops, restored their ranks, and pressed the barbarians on every side.

Christ, with the triumphant band of the saints and the elect who had escaped death, or who had been miraculously revived, would reign upon earth till the time appointed for the last and general resurrection.

He revived, indeed, the title of Patricians, but he revived it as a personal, not as an hereditary distinction.

The aspect of their young prince revived the drooping spirits of the soldiers, and they marched from Rheims in search of the enemy, with a confidence which had almost proved fatal to them.

The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.

In this hopeless condition, the fainting spirits of the Romans were revived by the sound of peace.

The Romans were terrified by the impending dangers of a feeble and divided administration, and every disgraceful moment of the unfortunate reigns of Arcadius and Honorius revived the memory of their irreparable loss.

In that assembly, the dying embers of freedom were, for a moment, revived and inflamed by the breath of fanaticism.

Gothic camp under the walls of Asta, revived the hopes, and vindicated the honor, of Rome.

Yet the savage destroyer undesignedly laid the foundation of a republic, which revived, in the feudal state of Europe, the art and spirit of commercial industry.