Meaning of resurrectionist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.
   euphemistic, historical
2. A believer in a future bodily resurrection.
3. One who resurrects an abandoned idea, practice, etc.; a revivalist.
4. One who sells repaired or reconditioned goods; a refurbisher.
   humorous, obsolete
5. A racehorse that (once or numerously) suddenly recovers its stamina midrace.
   humorous, obsolete

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Examples

“One... who makes open⟳ profession of dealing in dead bodies and is well known by the name⟳ of the Resurrectionist.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We have⟳ no taste⟳ for enacting the part of literary resurrectionists.”

“Bank is a theatrical resurrectionist: His New York-based company... specializes in unearthing and staging ‘neglected but worthy’ works.”

“Some of the habitual buyers [of ostrich feathers] have⟳ nicknames, and those who do a local business and buy⟳ for re-selling are known as ‘resurrectionists’.”

“There is a class of horses called ‘resurrectionists’... and they either recover⟳ early form⟳... or... become⟳ animated, when they were supposed to be gone altogether, with... life and vigour.”

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