resurrectionize
Verb
To resurrect, or raise from the dead.
Usage- Archaic
- Transitive
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March 14 1804, Robert Southey, letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge you will stare at the catalogue of dead authors whom I shall have to resurrectionise
To remove a body from its grave (illegally, for dissection); to engage in bodysnatching.
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"Remember, the law now punishes with transportation those who resurrectionize, and those who encourage resurrectionists."
Word forms
resurrectionizesresurrectionizingresurrectionizedresurrectionized