revivification
English
Etymology
Compare French révivification.
Noun
revivification (countable and uncountable, plural revivifications)
- The act of reviving; restoration of life.
- (chemistry, obsolete) The reduction of a metal from a state of combination to its metallic state.
- 1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici:
- I have often beheld as a miracle, that artificiall resurrection and revivification of Mercury, how being mortified into a thousand shapes, it assumes again its owne, and returns to its numericall selfe.
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