LekhoriLekhoriTo cause (a person or animal) to recover from a faint; to cause (a person or animal) to return to a state of consciousness.
Near-synonym: rescue
To bring (a person or animal which is dead) back to life.
And in her cheekes the vermeill red did ſhevv / Like roſes in a bed of lilies ſhed, / The vvhich ambroſiall odours from them threvv, / And gazers ſence vvith double pleaſure fed, / Hable to heale the ſicke, and to reuiue the ded.
Synonym of revival (“an act of reviving, or a state of being revived (in various senses)”).
[F]irst called at Wotton's, the shoemaker's, who tells me the reason of [Henry] Harris's going from Sir W[illia]m Davenant's house, that he grew very proud and demanded £20 for himself extraordinary, more than [Thomas] Betterton, or any body else, upon every new play, and £10 upon every revive; […]
The verb is derived from Late Middle English reviven, revyven (“to recover from illness; to regain consciousness; to return to life after death; to happen again, recur; to be rejuvenated, renewed; (fi...
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To cause (something) to recover from a state of decline, neglect, oblivion, or obscurity; to make (something) active or lively again; to reanimate, to revitalize.
The Manx language has been revived after dying out, and is now taught in some schools on the Isle of Man.