Revive /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Revived; p. pr. & vb. n. Reviving

1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

   The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived.

2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
3. To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal. (Old Chem.)

1. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.

   Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived.

2. To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.

   Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts.

   Your coming, friends, revives me.

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.

   The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had.

5. To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination. (Old Chem.)