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revive
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Revive \Re*vive"\, 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] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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. [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]
