Renaissance, n.

(rŭh-nā'sŏngs'), n. [Fr., fr. re again, and naissance, birth; naître, Lat. nāti, to be born.] A renewal; hence, a style of decorative art freer than the antique, but resulting therefrom, revived by Raphael in the pontificate of Leo X., as the result of the exhuming of certain ancient paintings.

Fairholt.