2. To raise from coma,, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension. Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts. Shak. Your coming, friends, revives me. Milton.
3. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
4. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. "Revive the libels born to die." Swift. The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had. Locke.
5. (Old Chem.)
Defn: To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.
REVIVEMENT
Re*vive"ment, n.
Defn: Revival. [R.]
REVIVER
Re*viv"er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, revives.
REVIVIFICATE Re`vi*vif"i*cate, v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + vivificate: cf. L. revivificare, revivificatum. Cf. Revivify.]