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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
revivify
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Monadnock succeeds in revivifying Thomson's opera.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And Leo had also been taking steps to revivify the influence of religion at other levels.
▪ From the same lands came the quest for the Grail that revivified the spirituality of the twelfth century.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revivify

Revivify \Re*viv"i*fy\, v. t. [Cf. F. r['e]vivifier, L. revivificare. See Vivify.] To cause to revive.

Some association may revivify it enough to make it flash, after a long oblivion, into consciousness.
--Sir W. Hamilton.

Wiktionary
revivify

vb. 1 To reanimate, bring back to life. 2 To reinvigorate or revitalize. 3 (context chemistry now rare English) To reactivate (a catalyst, reagent etc.).

WordNet
revivify
  1. v. give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify]

  2. [also: revivified]

Usage examples of "revivify".

I saw the antehistorical times revivified, when the Tertiary and Quaternary periods passed before me, was now realized!

It could be revivified, although as you see we no longer find it necessary to reanimate you in order to converse.

Education Control in preserving, correcting, and revivifying the progressive process in human affairs had already been manifested by the supersession of the leading personalities of the Basra conference in the World Council by their successors who became the Air Dictatorship.

Rupert Inkman can be killed, but his body will be revivified by the power of the Rap Sheet.

Freezing an organism that small and then revivifying it is nothing, these days.

Krill began the task of revivifying the Yeth we provided him with a design for the bodies, so that we will look as we did before.

Stepping closer to the assembler's revivified corpse, Boba Fett brought his own visor-shielded gaze closer to the blind one's.

Without waiting for an answer, she carried Jones' dead soldier away to be revivified.

And she puts the bone down on the ground and covers it with her blanket and sings a revivifying song, a magical song with great power.

A few clouds of startling white dotted the blue of the sky, and the sun shone down from among them, revivifying and rejuvenating, reflected in dancing facets from the imperial blue of the sea.

Who could have set this whole thing up, just to have Norathar dead, then revivified, then made the Dragon Heir?

Two years after that, Norathar is set up, killed, revivified, and is suddenly going to be the heir.

If Norathar had been killed by Blackwand, nothing and no one could have revivified her, nor would she have been reborn, as Dragaerans believe happens to anyone who isn’t brought to the Paths of the Dead, and some who are.

When we revivified her we did a mind-probe and wrote down the details of every plot of any kind she’s ever been involved in, and we gave her a copy so that she knows we know.

I had no idea what had happened, or why, until I got up, after Aliera revivified me, and saw--” he choked for a minute, and looked away “--and saw your body, my lord.