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; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson.

Return to life. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

a retrospective survey; a looking over again; as, a review of one's studies; a review of life.

To restore vitality to; to bring back to life. L. S. Beale.

To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak. The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived. 1 Kings xvii. 22.

To revive; to recall or restore to life. [R.]

Renewal of life; restoration of life; the act of recaling, or the state of being recalled, to life.

Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating. Milton. -- Re*viv"ing*ly, adv.

The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal of life. In this age we have a sort of reviviscence, not, I fear, of the power, but of a taste for the power, of the early times. Coleridge.

In ancient art, the painting of genre or still-life pictures.

abundant; copious; bountiful; as, a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop. If life be short, it shall be glorious; Each minute shall be rich in some great action. Rowe. The gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold. Milton.

See Life line (a), under Life.

Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification. The prince lived in this convent with all the rigor and austerity of a capuchin. Addison.

To spend or pass in riot. [He] had rioted his life out. Tennyson.

Excess; tumult; revelry. [Obs.] His life he led in lawless riotise. Spenser.

To ascend from the grave; to come to life. But now is Christ risen from the dead. 1. Cor. xv. 20.

Growing; advancing to adult years and to the state of active life; as, the rising generation.

The life of a vargant. [Obs.]

of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance.

One devoted to a life of sensual pleasure; a debauchee; a rake.