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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Resuscitate

Re-sŭs'çi-tāte, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. RESUSCITATED; p. pr. & vb. n. RESUSCITATING.] [Lat. resuscitare, resuscitatum, from re, again, and suscitare, to raise, rouse; It. resuscitare, risuscitare, Sp. resuscitar, resucitar, Fr. ressusciter. See SUSCITATE.] To revivify; to revive; especially, to recover from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants.

Re-sŭs'çi-tāte, v. i.

verbintransitive

To come to life again.

As these projects, however often slain, always resuscitate, it is not superfluous to examine one or two of the fallacies by which the schemers impose on themselves. J. S. Mill.