Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Reviving; regaining life or animation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Able or disposed to revive; reviving.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Able or disposed to revive; reviving.

Etymologies

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Latin reviviscens, present participle of reviviscere to revive; prefix re- re- + viviscere, verb inchoate from vivere to live.

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Examples

  • He thought it over as he wimbled his bonds, and the piece of news acted as a reviviscent breath to that old view of his -- of Donald Farfrae as his triumphant rival who rode rough-shod over him.

    The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

  • He thought it over as he wimbled his bonds, and the piece of news acted as a reviviscent breath to that old view of his -- of Donald Farfrae as his triumphant rival who rode rough-shod over him.

    The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884

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