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Meaning of resurrectionize | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. To resurrect, or raise from the dead.
    archaic, transitive
  2. To remove a body from its grave (illegally, for dissection); to engage in bodysnatching.

Examples

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

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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