reviveverb/ɹɪˈvaɪ̯v/

• 1

  To 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
  • Her grandmother said that if she lost consciousness, she would not want to be revived.
• 2

  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.
  • [T]he King is vveary / Of daintie and ſuch picking greeuances, / For he hath found, to end one doubt by death, / Reuiues tvvo greater in the heires of life: […]
• 3

  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.
  • This new paint job should revive the surgery waiting room.
• 4

  To cause (a feeling, state of mind, etc.) to come back or return; to reactivate, to reawaken.

  • Partriche. Of all foules is moſte ſooneſt digeſted: and hath in hym moche nutriment, comforteth the brayne, and maketh ſede of generation,. and reuiueth luſte, whiche is abated.
  • So did ſhe all, that might his conſtant hart / VVithdravv from thought of vvarlike enterprize, / And drovvne in diſſolute delights apart, / VVhere noiſe of armes, or vevv of martiall guize / Might not reuiue deſire of knightly exercize.
• 5

  To renew (something) in one's or people's memories or minds; to bring back (something) to (public) attention; to reawaken.

  • The Harry Potter books and films revived the world’s interest in wizardry.
  • [T]he reſidue that was therto knytte and adioyned⸝ and late ſemed for the tyme ded or bireft from the mynde⸝ is reuiued and (as it were) retourned home agayne⸝ it is thã [than, i.e., then] had for redemed or reſtored⸝ and is properly called remembraunce.
• 6

  To make (something which has become faded or unclear) clear or fresh again; to refresh.

  • It was very odd; his clothes were a fine, deep, glossy, black, and yet they looked like the same suit; nay, there were the very darns, with which old acquaintance had made us familiar. […] The truth flashed suddenly upon us—they had been "revived." 'Tis a deceitful liquid that black and blue reviver; we have watched its effects on many a shabby-genteel man. […] [T]he transient dignity of the unhappy man decreased in exact proportion as the "reviver" wore off.
  • […] I applied to the Council of the Academy, […] for liberty to apply a proper preparation to the part of the vellum which appeared blank before the name O'Donnell, and between it and the margin of the page. The academy complied with my request. I took the necessary means of reviving the ink, and in a little time I was rewarded by the plain and clear reappearance of what had not been before dreamt of. There, surely enough, were the name and the title of "Bonaventura O'Donnell", with the words added, "Jubilate Lector".
• 7

  historicalchemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo restore (a metal (especially mercury) or other substance in a compound or mixture) to its pure or unmixed state.

  • to revive a metal after calcination
  • Take of crude Mercury diſtilled in a retort vvith Bay ſalt, or revived vvith common Cinnabarum, one part, Aqua fortis (of tvvo parts of Vitriol calcined and one part of ſalt Peter) tvvo parts, diſſolve them in a phial over vvarm aſhes, […]
• 8

  historicallawTo give new validity to (a law or legal instrument); to reenact, to revalidate.

  • [Y]et by his moſte excellent witte⸝ he in a few yeres⸝ nat only broughte this realme in good ordre and vnder due obedience⸝ reuiued the lawes⸝ auanced Juſtice⸝ refurniſſhed his dominions⸝ and repayred his manours: […]
  • [S]uche Lawes made by hym, as kyng Henry the ſixt, had cauſed to be abrogated and adnichilated, he again reuiued and renouated.

revivenoun/ɹɪˈvaɪ̯v/

• 1

  obsoleteSynonym 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; […]