Revive

Re*vive" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Revived (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Reviving.] [F. revivere, L. revivere; pref. re- re- + vivere to live. See Vivid.] 1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak.

The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived.

2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.

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

Re*vive", v. t. [Cf. F. reviver. See Revive, v. i.] 1. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.

Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived.

2. To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.

Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts.

Your coming, friends, revives me.

3. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.

4. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. "Revive the libels born to die." Swift.

The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had.

5. (Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.