Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who steals bodies from graves in order to sell them for dissection; a body snatcher.
- noun One who brings something back into use or notice again.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who makes a practice of stealing bodies from the grave for dissection: also used adjectively.
- noun Hence One who unearths anything from long concealment or obscurity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Slang One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun euphemistic A
graverobber (a term commonly employed in the 18th and 19th centuries).
Etymologies
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Examples
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But peering from the window, he saw that the resurrectionist was a dog which already had its teeth in the cloak.
The Little Minister 1898
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As I paraphrase this, JLA is describing the morphology of religious liberalism as "resurrectionist".
Philocrites: Philip Rieff on charisma, culture, and prophecy. 2007
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The "resurrectionist" scare was at its height then, and the patriarch, who was one of the men in Thrums paid to watch new graves in the night-time, has often told the story.
Auld Licht Idyls 1898
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The "resurrectionist" scare was at its height then, and the patriarch, who was one of the men in Thrums paid to watch new graves in the night-time, has often told the story.
Auld Licht Idylls 1898
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The resurrectionist took the corpse naked, this being in law a misdemeanor, as opposed to a felony if garments were taken as well
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Even though I personally suspect keiths will fall to the boring old resurrectionist soul, long before he gets to actual godheads.
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Things go bad when Nab, Ren, and Tom get into the resurrectionist business, and there are some gruesome and violent episodes.
Archive 2009-01-04 Bill Crider 2009
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Two that were particularly helpful were The Italian Boy by Sarah Wise, a non-fiction account of a trial of two resurrection men in London, and The Knife Man by Wendy Moore, a biography of John Hunter, who was a famous surgeon and resurrectionist.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Two that were particularly helpful were The Italian Boy by Sarah Wise, a non-fiction account of a trial of two resurrection men in London, and The Knife Man by Wendy Moore, a biography of John Hunter, who was a famous surgeon and resurrectionist.
Hannah Tinti, Author of The Good Thief -- Loaded Questions Author Interview 2008
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Some were explicitly resurrectionist -- a god suffers, dies, and is reborn -- but that wasn't the only way the story of springtime could be told.
sionnach commented on the word resurrectionist
a body-snatcher; graverobber
November 14, 2008