Defn: 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.
REVIVALISTIC
Re*viv`al*is"tic, a.
Defn: Pertaining to revivals.
REVIVE
Re*vive", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Revived; p. pr. & vb. n. Reviving.]
Etym: [F. revivere, L. revivere; pref. re- re- + vivere to live. See
Vivid.]
1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak. The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived. 1 Kings xvii. 22.
2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
3. (Old Chem.)
Defn: To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
REVIVE
Re*vive", v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. reviver. See Revive, v. i.]
1. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate. Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived. Bp. Pearson.