One... who makes open profession of dealing in dead bodies and is well known by the name of the Resurrectionist.
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Resurrectionist
Synonyms for "resurrectionist"
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Early in the 19th century, Udny Green churchyard was a favourite haunt of resurrectionists who dug up freshly interred corpses to sell to the medical school at Aberdeen. To prevent this, in 1832 the villagers built a mort-house where they kept the newly dead for a while before burial.
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1830, A. Addis, Theory of Prophecy, Prol. p.xliv Those who make the rest of the dead... to be the same with the remnant slain by the sword... to be consistent, ought to make the first resurrectionists the same with the armies in heaven.
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We have no taste for enacting the part of literary resurrectionists.
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