redivivus

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To my mind the "Absolute" philosophies were finally knocked on the head by Hamilton; and the "Unknowable" in Mr. Spencer's sense is merely the Absolute redivivus, a sort of ghost of an extinct philosophy, the name of a negation hocus-pocussed into a sham thing.

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  1. adjective Come back to life; revived: "defenders of the Imperial Presidency redivivus” (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)

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  • So by a process familiar to everyone who's ever heard the word "structuralism", the mob must be the opposite: bigoted, chauvinistic, irrational, ignorant, uncritical, and in short, the inevitable prey of a Hitler redivivus, unless they're kept in line. —  Stop Me Before I Vote Again
  • Is that supposed to be the formerly serious GRTU man Vince Farrugia or James Dean redivivus? —  timesofmalta.com
  • Referring to Adler as "Fliess redivivus," Freud also notes that Stekel's first name is Wilhelm, suggesting that both relationships evoked the ending of his friendship with Wilhelm Fliess in 1901, because of what Freud described as Fliess's paranoia. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Compounds 1-3 gave 100\% mortality at 25, 100, and 100 microg mL (-1), respectively, on the nematode, Panagrellus redivivus. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • To my mind the "Absolute" philosophies were finally knocked on the head by Hamilton; and the "Unknowable" in Mr. Spencer's sense is merely the Absolute redivivus, a sort of ghost of an extinct philosophy, the name of a negation hocus-pocussed into a sham thing. —  Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
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  1. Late Latin redivīvus, from Latin, renewed : re-, red-, re- + vīvus, living; see vivify.

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  1. Latin, living again, from red- (i-), again, + vivus, living: see vivid. Cf. revive.
 

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