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n. [ From Revive. ] The act of reviving, or the state of being revived. Specifically: (a) Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature. (b) Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature. (c) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest. (d) Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied to the health, spirits, and the like. (e) Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture. (f) Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion. (g) (Law) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will, etc. (h) Revivification, as of a metal. See Revivification, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote revivals. Also used adjectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to revivals. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. reviver. See Revive, v. i. ] 1. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your coming, friends, revives me. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. “Revive the libels born to die.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived. 1 Kings xvii. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Old Chem.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Revival. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, revives. [ 1913 Webster ]