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resurrectionize

verb · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

verb

Meaning 1

To resurrect, or raise from the dead.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, transitive

Examples

  • March 14 1804, Robert Southey, letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge you will stare at the catalogue of dead authors whom I shall have to resurrectionise

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verb

Meaning 2

To remove a body from its grave (illegally, for dissection); to engage in bodysnatching.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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History

Etymology

From resurrection + -ize.