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What does "revive" mean?

Revive: 2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.

Additional senses

  1. 2.(Old Chem.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
  2. 3.To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate. Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived. Bp. Pearson.
  3. 4.To raise from coma,, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension. Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts. Shak. Your coming, friends, revives me. Milton.
  4. 5.Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
  5. 6.To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. "Revive the libels born to die." Swift. The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had. Locke.
  6. 7.(Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.

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