revival 
doctrine was the main work of the movement, especially 
in its earlier stages, but this resulted afterward in a n- 
vival of ritual also, and this extension of the movement 
is known as ritualism. (See ritualist, 2.) The general 
object of the Catholic revival was to affirm and enforce 
the character of the Anglican Church as Catholic In the 
sense of unbroken historical derivation from and agree- 
ment In doctrine and organization with the ancient Cath- 
olic Church before the division between East and West. 
revivalism (r6-vl'val-izm), . [< revival 
-ism.] That form of religious activity which 
manifests itself in revivals. [Recent.] 
The most perfect example of revivalimn, the one to which 
It constantly appeals for its warrant, was the rapt assem- 
bly at Pentecost, with its many-tongued psalmists and in- 
soired prophets, its transports and fervors and miraculous 
conversions. The Century, XXXI. 80. 
revivalist (re-vi'val-ist), n. [< revival + -is*.] 
One who is instrumental in producing or pro- 
moting in a community a revival of religious 
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With tempers too much given to pleasure, it is almost 
necessary to revive the old places of grief in our memory. 
Steele, Taller, No. 181. 
The beautiful specimens of pearls which he sent home 
from the coast of Paria revived the cupidity of the nation. 
Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 9. 
When I describe the moon at which I am looking, I am 
describing merely a plexus of optical sensations with sun- 
dry revived states of mind linked by various laws of asso- 
ciation with the optical sensations. 
J. Fiske, Evolutionist, p. 327. 
4. To restore to use, practice, or general ac- 
ceptance; make current, popular, or authori- 
tative once more ; recover from neglect or dis- 
revocation 
2. To give new vigor or animation to ; enliven 
again. 
Local literature is pretty sure, . . . when it comes, to 
have that distinctive Australian mark . . . which may 
even one day renvify the literature of England. 
Sir C. W. Dilke, Probs. of Greater Britain, ii. 1. 
3. In diem., to purify, as a substance that has 
been used as a reagent in a chemical process, 
so that it can be used again in the same way. 
A description of the kiln in use for revivifying char will 
be found in the article on sugar. 
Thorpe, Diet, of Applied Chem., I. 171. 
= Syn. See list under revive. 
fi. intrans. In ehem., to become efficient a 
aiiif the Acts made in his one and" twentieth Yeare were mentation, etc. 
wholly repealed. Baker, Chronicles, p. 157. revivingly (re-vi'ving-li), adv. 
The function of the prophet was then^renpw^ and poets manner. Imp. Diet. 
o ' . ~ -. .. T V J. 1IC 1UUWMHI tax* plujjllm' "a - Illitlllld . AnVVI J-rt\jl. 
interest and activity : specifically applied to an for the flrst , j me asp i r ed to teach the art of life, and ..p-oiviqeence (rev-i-vis'ens), n. 
itinerant preacher who makes this uis special founded schools. J. R. Seeley, Nat. Religion, p. 92. r ^*nvMscenza , f L.Vm 
work. [Recent.] 
The conviction of enmity to God, which the revivalist 
assumes as the flrst step in any true spiritual life. 
The American, VIII. 126. 
revivalistic (re-vi-va-lis'tik), a. [< revivalist 
+ -ic.] 1. Of 'or pertaining to a revivalist or 
revivalism. 
Revivalistic success is seldom seen apart from a certain 
easily recognized type of man. 
lieligiotts Herald, March 26, 1885. 
2. Characterized by revivalism; of the nature 
of revivalism. [Recent and rare in both uses.] 
Spiritual preaching is reviving ; it is not necessarily re- 
vioalistic. The Century, XXXI. 438. 
In a reviving 
[= F. revMs- 
iscen(t-)s, ppr. 
5. To renovate. [Colloq.] 
The boy . . . appeared ... In a revived black coat of 
his master's. Dickens, Sketches, Tales, i. 
6. To reproduce; represent after a lapse of p idVty,'especially in the case of insects after 
time, especially upon the stage : as, to revive hibernation. 
. 
of reviviscere, inceptive of revivere, revive : see 
revive.] Revival; reanimation; the renewal 
of life; in not. hist., an awakening from tor- 
- 
___ , .^^. 
an old play. 
A past, vamp'd, future, old, reviv'd new piece, 
Twixt Plautus, Fletcher, Shakespear, and Corneille, 
Can make a Cibber, Tibbald, or OreO^ . 
revive (re-viv'), '.; pret. and pp. revived, ppr. 
reviving. ' [< OF. F. reciere = Pr. reviiire = Cat. 
actual or seeming death; resume vital functions 
or activities : as, to revive after a swoon. 
The soul of the child came into him again, and he re- 
vived. 1 Ki. xvii. 22. 
Henry is dead, and never shall revive. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., I. 1. 18. 
She smiled to see the doughty hero slain, 
But, at her smile, the beau revived again. 
Pope, R. of the L., v. 70. 
Neitherwill the life of the soul alone continuing amount 
to the reviviscence of the whole man. 
Bp. Pearson, Expos, of Creed, ii. 
reviviscency (rev-i-vis'en-si), n. [As revivis- 
cence (see -cy).] Same as reviviscence. 
Since vitality has, somehow or other, commenced with- 
out a designing cause, why may not the same cause pro- 
duce a reviviscency f T. Cogan, Disquisitions, 111. 
reviviscent (rev-i-vis'ent), a. [= F. reviviscen t, 
< L. reviviscen(t-)s, ppr. of reviviscere, revive, 
Re- 
f< revive + -orl~\ In 
. L 
Already in the latter days of the Republic the multitude 
(including even the knights, according to Horace) could 
only be reconciled to tragedy by the introduction of that 
species of accessories by which in our own day a play of 
Shakspere's is said to be revived. 
A. W. Ward, Eng. Dram. Lit., I. 8. 
. , 7. In law, to reinstate, as an action or suit in ~ eptive of r^re, revive : see revive.] 
reviurcr = Sp. revivir = Pg. reviver = It. rivivere, which has become abated, bee revival, 7. 8. v i v ing. rega ining life or animation. 
< L. revivere, live again, revive (cf. ML. revivare j n chem . , to restore or reduce to its natural state > of 6 the trla i wer e canvassed anew with 
tr., revive), < re-, again, + vivere, live: see vivid. or to its metallic state: as, to revive a metal re mvinctnt interest. The Atlantic, LVIII. 390. 
Cf.reeire.] I. intrans. 1 . To return to life after after calcination. =Syn. 1 and 2. To reanimate, rein- , - -, 
vigorate, renew, reinspirit, cheer, hearten. See the quo- II 
tation under revitalize. 
revivet, Revival ; return to life. 
Hee is dead, and therefore grieue not thy memorie with 
the imagination of his new revive. 
Greene, Menaphon, p. 50. (Dames.) 
revivement (re-viv'ment), n. [= It. ravviva- 
meitto; as revive + -ment.] The act of reviv- 
. . ing; revivification. 
2 To live again ; have a second life. [Rare.] we have the sacred Scriptures, our blessed Saviour, his reVOCability (rev"o-ka-bil'i-ti), n. [= F. revo- 
Emotionally we revive in our children ; economically we apostles, and the purer primitive times, and the late Ref- cabilite; as revocable + -% (see -btllly).] The 
orniation, or revivement rather, all on our side. ^ _^ ^ property of being revocable; revocableness 
Imp. Diet. 
law, 
the death of a party, the marriage of a female 
plaintiff, or other cause. See revival, 7. Also 
spelled reviver Bill of revivor, a bill filed to re- 
vive a bill which had abated. Bill of revivor and sup- 
plement, a bill of revivor filed where it was necessary 
not only to revive the suit, but also to allege by way of 
supplemental pleading other facts which had occurred 
since the suit was commenced. 
Emotionally... . 
sacrifice many of our present gratifications to the develop- 
ment of the race. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXXIII. 386. 
Feltham, Letters, xvii. (Latham.) 
3 To gain fresh life and vigor; be reanimated reviver (re-vi'ver), . 1. One who revives or rev0 cable (rev'o-ka-bl), a. [< OF. revocable, 
or quickened ; recover strength, as after languor 
or depression. 
When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry 
him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived. Gen. xlv. 27. 
A spirit which had been extinguished on the plains of 
Philippi revived in Athanasius and Ambrose. 
Macaulay, History. 
4. To be renewed in the mind or memory : as, 
the memory of his wrongs revived within him ; 
past emotions sometimes revive. 5. To regain 
use or currency; come into general use, prac- 
tice, or acceptance, as after a period of neglect 
or disuse; become current once more. 
Then Sculpture and her sister arts revive. 
Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 701. 
This heresy having revived in the world about an hun- 
dred years a?o, . . . several divines . . . began to find out 
farther explanations of this doctrine of the Trinity. 
restores anything to use or prominence ; one 
who recovers anything from inactivity, neglect, 
or disuse. 
He saith it [learning] is the corrupter of the simple, the 
schoolmaster of sinne, the storehouse of treacherie, the 
reuiuer of vices, and mother of cowardize. 
Nashe, Pierce Penilesse, p. 39. 
Giotto was not a reviver he was an inventor. 
The Century, XXXVII. 67. 
2. That which invigorates or revives. 
"Now, Mr. Tapley," said Mark, giving himself a tremen- 
dous blow in the chest by way of reviver, "just you attend 
to what I've got to say." 
Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, xxiii. 
3. A compound used for renovating clothes. 
Tis a deceitful liquid, that black and blue reviver. 
Dickeni, Sketches, Characters, x. 
4. In law. See revivor. 
, On the Trinity, revivificate (re-viv'i-fi-kat), v. t. [< LL. reviri-, 
His [dive's] policy was to a great extent abandoned ; Jicatng, pp. of (ML. ) revivificare, restore to life : 
the abuses which he had suppressed began to revive. 
Macaulay, Lord Clive. ]ife Jo f tnson . [Rare.] 
6. In chem., to recover its natural or metallic revivification (re-viv"i-fi-ka'shon), 
state, as a metal. 
II. trans. 1. To bring back to life; revivify; 
resuscitate after actual or seeming death or 
destruction ; restore to a previous mode of ex- 
istence. 
To heale the sicke, and to revive the ded. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. iii. 22. 
What do these feeble Jews? . . . will they revive the 
stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? 
Neh. iv. 2. 
Is not this boy revived from death? 
Shak., Cymbeline, v. 5. 120. 
2. To quicken; refresh; rouse from languor, . . 
depression, or discouragement. parts may be secured. 
Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts, revivify (re-viv'i-fi), v. [< OF revwtfier, F. 
And give my tongue-tied sorrows leave to speak. revwifier Sp. Pg. revmficar = It. revivificare, 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., iii. 3. 21. < ML. revivificare (LL. in pp. reririficatus), re- 
F revocable = Pr. Sp. revocable = Pg. revo- 
anve i it. rivocabile, < L. revoeatilis, < revo- 
care, revoke : see revoke.] Capable of being 
recalled or revoked: as, a revocable edict or 
grant. Compare revokable. 
Howsoever you show bitterness, do not act anything 
that is not revocable. Bacon, Anger. 
Treaties may . . . be revocable at the will of either party, 
or Irrevocable. Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, 102. 
revocableness (rev'o-ka-bl-nes), n. The char- 
acter of being revocable. Bailey, 1727. 
revocably (rev'o-ka-bli), adv. In a revocable 
manner; so as to be revocable. Imp. Diet. 
revocatet (rev'o-kat), v. t. [< L. revocatus, pp. 
of revocare, revoke: see revoke.] To revoke; 
recall. 
His successor, by order, nullifies 
Many his patents, and did revocate 
And re-assume his liberalities. 
Daniel, Civil Wars, Hi. 89. 
see revivify.] To revive ; recall or restore to revoca tet (rev'o-kat), a. [< L. revocatus, pp. of 
[= F. 
revivification = Pg. revivificaySo, < ML. revivifi- 
catio( -), < revivificare, revivify : see remcificate, 
revivify.] 1. Renewal of life; restoration to 
life; resuscitation. 
The resurrection or revivification (for the word signifies revocation (rev-o-ka'shon), n. 
no more than so) is common to both. "' - W -A,,,,.,,*,;, _ 
Dr. H. More, Mystery of Godliness, p. 225. (Latham.) 
2. In chem., the reduction of a metal from a 
state of combination to its metallic state. 3. 
In surg., the dissection off of the skin or mu- 
cous membrane in a part or parts, that by the 
apposition of surfaces thus prepared union of 
Your coming, friends, revives me. Milton, S. A., 1. 1S7. 
3. To renew in the mind or memory; recall; 
reawaken. 
The mind has a power in many cases to revive percep- 
tions which it has once had. 
Locke, Human Understanding, II. x. S 2. 
store to life, < L. re-, again, + LL. vivificare, 
restore to life : see vivify.] I, trans. 1. Tore- 
store to life after actual or apparent death. 
This warm Libation . . . seemed to animate my frozen 
Frame, and to revivify my Body. 
Wraxall, Historical Memoirs, I. 309. 
revocare, call back: see revoke.] Repressed; 
checked; also, pruned. 
But yf it axe to be revocate, 
And yf the stok be holgh or concavate, 
Purge of the dede [dead wood]. 
Palladium, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 70. 
,- [< OF. revoca- 
tion, revocation, F. revocation = Pr. revocation = 
Sp. revocation = Pg. revocafSo, revogac.3o == It. 
rivoeazione, < L. revocatio(n-), < revocare, re- 
voke: see revocate, revoke.] 1. The act of re- 
voking or recalling; also, the state of being 
recalled or summoned back. 
One of the town ministers, that saw in what manner the 
people were bent for the revocation of Calvin, gave him 
notice of their affection in this sort. 
Honker, Eccles. Polity, Pref., ii. 
The faculty of which this act of revocation is the energy 
I call the reproductive. Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., xxi. 
2. The act of revoking or annulling; the re- 
versal of a thing done by the revoker or his 
predecessor in the same authority; the calling 
back of a thing granted, or the making void of 
some deed previously existing; also, the state 
