Part 317

Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts.

Shak.

Your coming, friends, revives me.

Milton.

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

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.

The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had.

Locke.

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

Re*vive"ment (?), n. Revival. [R.]

Re*viv"er (?), n. One who, or that which, revives.

Re`vi*vif"i*cate (?), v. t. [Pref. re- + vivificate: cf. L. revivificare, revivificatum. Cf. Revivify.] To revive; to recall or restore to life. [R.]

Re*viv`i*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. révivification.] 1. Renewal of life; restoration of life; the act of recalling, or the state of being recalled, to life.

2. (Old Chem.) The reduction of a metal from a state of combination to its metallic state.

Re*viv"i*fy (?), v. t. [Cf. F. révivifier, L. revivificare. See Vivify.] To cause to revive.

Some association may revivify it enough to make it flash, after a long oblivion, into consciousness.

Sir W. Hamilton.

Re*viv"ing (?), a. & n. Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating. Milton. -- Re*viv"ing*ly, adv.

{ Rev`i*vis"cence (?), Rev`i*vis"cen*cy (?), } n. The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal of life.

In this age we have a sort of reviviscence, not, I fear, of the power, but of a taste for the power, of the early times.

Coleridge.

Rev`i*vis"cent (?), a. [L. reviviscens, p. pr. ofreviviscere to revive; pref. re- re- + viviscere, v. incho. fr. vivere to live.] Able or disposed to revive; reviving. E. Darwin.

Re*viv"or (?), n. (Eng. Law) Revival of a suit which is abated by the death or marriage of any of the parties, -- done by a bill of revivor. Blackstone.

Rev`o*ca*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality of being revocable; as, the revocability of a law.

Rev"o*ca*ble (?), a. [L. revocabilis: cf. F. révocable. See Revoke.] Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant.

-- Rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Rev"o*ca*bly, adv.

Rev"o*cate (?), v. t. [L. revocatus, p. p. of revocare. See Revoke.] To recall; to call back. [Obs.]

Rev`o*ca"tion (?), n. [L. revocatio: cf. F. révocation.] 1. The act of calling back, or the state of being recalled; recall.