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What's The Definition Of Revive?

\Re*vive"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Revived}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reviving}.] [F. revivere, L. revivere; pref. re- re- + vivere to live. See {Vivid}.] 1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. --Shak. The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived. --1 Kings xvii. 22. 2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century. 3. (Old Chem.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
\Re*vive"\, v. t. [Cf. F. reviver. See {Revive}, v. i.] 1. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate. Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived. --Bp. Pearson. 2. 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. 3. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning. 4. 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. 5. (Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.