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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Revive

Re-vīve', v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. REVIVED; p. pr. & vb. n. REVIVING.] [Fr. revivre, Pr. reviuire, Sp. revivir, Pg. reviver, It. rivivere, Lat. revivere, from re, again, and vivere, to live.]

Sense 1. To return to life; to recover life; to live anew; to become re-animated or re-invigorated.

And saw around me the wide fields revive With fruits and fertile promise.  Byron.

Sense 2. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect, oblivion, obscurity, or depression.

Sense 3. (Chem.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.

Re-vīve', v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [Fr. raviver, Pr. revivar, It. ravivare. See supra.] 1. To bring again to life; to re-animate; to raise from languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension. Your words revive my drooping thoughts. Shak. Your coming, friends, revives me. Milton.

  1. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or depression; as, to revive letters or learning.
  2. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to bestow attention upon; to awaken; to animate.

The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had. Locke. Revive the libels born to die. Swift. 4. (Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural state, or to its metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.