Resurrectionize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To resurrect, or raise from the dead. archaic, transitive

    "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"

  2. 2
    To remove a body from its grave (illegally, for dissection); to engage in bodysnatching.

    ""Remember, the law now punishes with transportation those who resurrectionize, and those who encourage resurrectionists.""

Example

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"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"

Etymology

From resurrection + -ize.

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