Revival :: Revival (n.) The act of reviving, or the state of being revived..
Revival :: Revival (n.) Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature..
Revival :: Revival (n.) Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature..
Revival :: Revival (n.) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest..
Revival :: Revival (n.) Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied to the health, spirits, and the like..
Revival :: Revival (n.) Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture..
Revival :: Revival (n.) Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion..
Revival :: Revival (n.) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will, etc..
Revival :: Revival (n.) Revivification, as of a metal. See Revivification, 2..
Revivalism :: Revivalism (n.) The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists.
Revivalist :: Revivalist (n.) A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote revivals. Also used adjectively..
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century..
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal..
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate..
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension..
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning..
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination..