resurrectionist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.
  2. A believer in a future bodily resurrection.
  3. One who resurrects an abandoned idea, practice, etc.; a revivalist.
  4. One who sells repaired or reconditioned goods; a refurbisher.
  5. A racehorse that (once or numerously) suddenly recovers its stamina midrace.

Word forms

resurrectionist resurrectionists

Etymology

From resurrection (“the act of rising from the dead and becoming alive again”) + -ist (“forms agents of cause; forms adherents of a belief”), coined alongside resurrection man.

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