resurrectionist
Meanings
Plural: resurrectionists
Noun
- One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.
- A believer in a future bodily resurrection.
- One who resurrects an abandoned idea, practice, etc.; a revivalist.
- One who sells repaired or reconditioned goods; a refurbisher.
- A racehorse that (once or numerously) suddenly recovers its stamina midrace.
Origin / Etymology
From resurrection (“the act of rising from the dead and becoming alive again”) + -ist (“forms agents of cause; forms adherents of a belief”), coined alongside resurrection man.
Synonyms
bodysnatcher, resurrection man, resurrectioner
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