Associations to the word «Resurrectionist»
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Wiktionary
RESURRECTIONIST, noun. (euphemistic) (historical) One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.
RESURRECTIONIST, noun. (religion) A believer in a future bodily resurrection.
RESURRECTIONIST, noun. One who resurrects an abandoned idea, practice, etc.; a revivalist.
RESURRECTIONIST, noun. (jocular) (obsolete) One who sells repaired or reconditioned goods; a refurbisher.
RESURRECTIONIST, noun. (horses) (jocular) (obsolete) A racehorse that (once or numerously) suddenly recovers its stamina midrace.
Wise words
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.