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Resurrectionist

Resurrectionist \Res`ur*rec"tion*ist\, n. One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection.

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resurrectionist

n. 1 (context euphemistic historical English) One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber. 2 (context religion English) A believer in a future bodily resurrection. 3 One who resurrects an abandoned idea, practice, etc.; a revivalist. 4 (context jocular obsolete English) One who sells repaired or reconditioned goods; a refurbisher. 5 (context horses jocular obsolete English) A racehorse that (once or numerously) suddenly recovers its stamina midrace.

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Resurrectionist

Resurrectionist may refer to:

  • Resurrectionist, one who practises body snatching
    • Resurrectionists in the United Kingdom
  • Resurrectionist Order of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Resurrectionist (novel), a 2007 historical adventure novel by James McGee
  • The Resurrectionists, a 2000 horror novel by Kim Wilkins
Resurrectionist (novel)

Resurrectionist is a historical mystery novel by author James McGee. It is the sequel to McGee's best-selling Ratcatcher.

Usage examples of "resurrectionist".

Father Squid went to answer it and let in a tall black man who looked like a resurrectionist out of a Boris Karloff movie.

The image of the ill-fated resurrectionist had, it seemed, always followed him.

The morning dawned fresh and clear, the sun rising early and growing warm rapidly, and shortly after morning prayer a picked band of eleven Resurrectionist men made their way through the heavily wooded area that separated their camp from that of the savages.

Two nights ago they planted a resurrectionist in the crowd, bringing some withered old biddy back to life on the sly every time she croaked.

GLAP, which is the Greater Los Angeles Police for any of you out-of-towners, GLAP believes if this alleged resurrectionist is hiding beneath our city he has to be down in the Level Four area or deeper.

The self-anointed pastor of the First Resurrectionist Maritime Assembly for God was skeptical.

I heard the resurrectionists struck again the other night at a little churchyard on the outskirts of town.

The more heavily-built one of the resurrectionists answered with an expansive gesture.

All were ours now by right of possession, and even legally, if what the resurrectionists had said on that subject was true-I learned later that it was.

Captain Walton needed very little time to establish contact with a second group of Resurrectionists, who proved to be more competent as well as more peaceful than the first.

The Resurrectionists just want to learn what the aliens were like, and maybe learn what happened to them.

The Resurrectionists had strung all the rooms and chambers and passages with angel lamps, clusters of luminous gossamer that cast a clean warm light and diminished the shadows so that the details within were clear and visible if often incomprehensible.

He had been with the Resurrectionists for years, but he never did any of the excavation or exploration, never descended into the Underneath.

This was not yet truly home, the Resurrectionists and Karimah were not yet truly family, but he believed that in time they could be, and that would do for now.

Cale was relieved to see Sidonie again after all this time, and heartened to see Cicero, but he was extremely disappointed that none of the other Resurrectionists had come, and stated so.