revivification

English

Etymology

Compare French révivification.

Noun

revivification (countable and uncountable, plural revivifications)

1. The act of reviving; restoration of life.
   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 73:

     Fir-cones and snakes from their very forms were emblems of male fertility; snakes, too, from their habit of gliding out of their own skins with renewed brightness and color were suggestive of resurrection and re-vivification; pigs and sows by their exceeding fruitfulness would in their hour of sacrifice remind old mother Earth of what was expected from her!

2. (chemistry, obsolete) The reduction of a metal from a state of combination to its metallic state.
   • 1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici:

     I have often beheld as a miracle, that artificiall resurrection and revivification of Mercury, how being mortified into a thousand shapes, it assumes again its owne, and returns to its numericall selfe.