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Word Meanings - RESUSCITATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated. The subject of resuscitation by his sorceries. Sir W. Scott.

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  • RIS
    A bough or branch; a twig. As white as is the blossom upon the ris. Chaucer.
  • RESURRECTIONIST
    One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection.
  • RISK
    1. To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication. 2. To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle. Syn. -- To hazard;
  • RENOVATION
    The act or process of renovating; the state of being renovated or renewed. Thomson. There is something inexpressibly pleasing in the annual renovation of the world. Rabbler.
  • REDEMPTIONER
    1. One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude. 2. Formerly, one who, wishing to emigrate from Europe to America, sold his services for a stipulated time to pay the expenses of his passage.
  • RISIBLE
    1. Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh. Laughing is our busines, . . . it has been made the definition of man that he is risible. Dr. H. More. 2. Exciting laughter; worthy to be laughed at; amusing. "Risible absurdities."
  • REPLACEMENT
    The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
  • RESURRECTION
    resurgere, resurrectum, to rise again; pref. re- re- + surgere to 1. A rising again; the resumption of vigor. 2. Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption of life by the dead; as, the resurrection of Jesus Christ; the
  • RISQUE; RISQUEE
    Hazardous; risky; esp., fig., verging upon impropriety; dangerously close to, or suggestive of, what is indecent or of doubtful morality; as, a risqué story. Henry Austin.
  • RIST
    3d pers. sing. pres. of Rise, contracted from riseth. Chaucer.
  • REDEMPTIONIST
    A monk of an order founded in 1197; -- so called because the order was especially devoted to the redemption of Christians held in captivity by the Mohammedans. Called also Trinitarian.
  • REANIMATION
    The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.
  • RISEN
    1. p. p. & a. from Rise. "Her risen Son and Lord." Keble. 2. Obs. imp. pl. of Rise. Chaucer.
  • RESTITUTION
    The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body. (more info) 1. The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or
  • REVIVALISM
    The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists.
  • VINDICATION
    The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of
  • REINSTATEMENT
    The act of reinstating; the state of being reinstated; re
  • REVIVAL
    The act of reviving, or the state of being revived. Specifically: Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature. Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature. Renewed interest in religion,
  • RETRIEVAL
    The act retrieving.
  • REDEMPTIONARY
    One who is, or may be, redeemed. Hakluyt.
  • HORRISONOUS
    Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey.
  • ENTERPRISER
    One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
  • TRISYLLABIC; TRISYLLABICAL
    Of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, "syllable" is a trisyllabic word. -- Tris`yllab"ic*al*ly, adv.
  • GRISLY
    Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson . Grisly bear. See under Grizzly. (more info) gro shudder; cf. OD. grijselick horrible,
  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • GRISTMILL
    A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.
  • SPAGYRIST
    1. A chemist, esp. one devoted to alchemistic pursuits. 2. One of a sect which arose in the days of alchemy, who sought to discover remedies for disease by chemical means. The spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists. Encyc. Brit.
  • LUTHERANISM; LUTHERISM
    The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church.
  • METAPHORIST
    One who makes metaphors.
  • ARTILLERIST
    A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman.
  • TANTRISM
    The system of doctrines and rites taught in the tantras. -- Tan"trist , n.
  • PERISTALSIS
    Peristaltic contraction or action.
  • IMPARISYLLABIC
    Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis.
  • PURISM
    Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. "His political purism." De Quincey. The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly
  • PORISMATIC; PORISMATICAL
    Of or pertaining to a porism; poristic.
  • PANDARISM
    See SWIFT
  • NATURISM
    The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent.
  • GRIST
    1. Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces. Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store. Tusser. Q. 2. Supply; provision. Swift. 3. In rope making, a given size

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