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   Revive , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Revived ; p. pr. & vb. n. Reviving.] [F. revivere, L. revivere; pref. re- re- + vivere to live. See Vivid.]
   To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
   Shak.
   
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   The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived.
   1 Kings xvii. 22.
   
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   Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
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   (Old Chem.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
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   Revive, v. t. [Cf. F. reviver. See Revive, v. i.]
   To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
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   Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived.
   Bp. Pearson.
   
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   To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
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   Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts.
   Shak.
   
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   Your coming, friends, revives me.
   Milton.
   
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   Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
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   To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. “Revive the libels born to die.”
   Swift.
   
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   The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had.
   Locke.
   
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   (Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.
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