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3. State of being risen from the dead; future state.

In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage.

Matt. xxii. 30.

4. The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.

I am the resurrection, and the life.

John xi. 25.

Cross of the resurrection, a slender cross with a pennant floating from the junction of the bars. -- Resurrection plant (Bot.), a name given to several species of Selaginella (as S. convoluta and S. lepidophylla), flowerless plants which, when dry, close up so as to resemble a bird's nest, but revive and expand again when moistened. The name is sometimes also given to the rose of Jericho. See under Rose.

Res`ur*rec"tion*ist (?), n. One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection. [Slang]

Res`ur*rec"tion*ize (?), v. t. To raise from the dead. [R.] Southey.

Re`sur*vey" (?), v. t. To survey again or anew; to review. Shak.

Re*sur"vey (?), n. A second or new survey.

Re*sus"ci*ta*ble (?), a. Capable of resuscitation; as, resuscitable plants. Boyle.

Re*sus"ci*tant (?), n. One who, or that which resuscitates. Also used adjectively.

Re*sus"ci*tate (?), a. [L. resuscitatus, p. p. of resuscitare; pref. re- re- + suscitare to raise, rouse. See Suscitate.] Restored to life. [R.] Bp. Gardiner.

Re*sus"ci*tate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resuscitated (?);p. pr. & vb. n. Resuscitating.] To revivify; to revive; especially, to recover or restore from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants.

Re*sus"ci*tate, v. i. To come to life again; to revive.

These projects, however often slain, always resuscitate.

J. S. Mill.

Re*sus`ci*ta"tion (?), n. [L. resuscitatio.] The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated.

The subject of resuscitation by his sorceries.

Sir W. Scott.

Re*sus"ci*ta*tive (?), a. Tending to resuscitate; reviving; revivifying.

Re*sus"ci*ta`tor (?), n. [L.] One who, or that which, resuscitates.

Ret (?), v. t. See Aret. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ret, v. t. [Akin to rot.] To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment. Ure.

Re*ta"ble (?), n. (Eccl.) A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of wlowers, etc.

Re"tail (?), n. [F. retaille piece cut off, shred, paring, or OF. retail, from retailler. See Retail, v.] The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.

Re"tail, a. Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer.