Meaning of revivification | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of reviving; restoration of life.
   countable, uncountable
2. The reduction of a metal from a state of combination to its metallic state.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

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Examples

“Fir-cones and snakes from their very forms were emblems of male fertility; snakes, too, from their habit of gliding out of their own skins with renewed brightness and color were suggestive of resurrection and re-vivification; pigs and sows by their exceeding fruitfulness would in their hour of sacrifice remind old mother Earth of what was expected from her!”

“I have often beheld as a miracle, that artificiall resurrection and revivification of Mercury, how being mortified into a thousand shapes, it assumes again its owne, and returns to its numericall selfe.”

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