v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Revived p. pr. & vb. n. Reviving. ] [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived. 1 Kings xvii. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Old Chem.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. reviver. See Revive, v. i. ] 1. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your coming, friends, revives me. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Revival. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, revives. [ 1913 Webster ]