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The act of reviving, or the state of being revived. Specifically:

The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists.

A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote revivals. Also used adjectively.

Pertaining to revivals.

The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.

bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom.

Hellenism as surviving or revival in modern times; the practice or pursuit of ancient Greek ideals in modern life, art, or literature, as in the Renaissance.

The modern revival of the Scholastic philosophy, esp. of that of Thomas Aquinas, with critical revision to suit the exigencies of the general advance in learning. The Neo-Scholastic movement received a great impetus from Leo XIII.'s interest in it.

Belonging to, or designating, the modern revival of classical, esp. Greco-Roman, taste and manner of work in architecture, etc.

A modified revival of the ancient Olympian games, consisting of international athletic games, races, etc., now held once in four years, the first having been at Athens in 1896.

The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.

A new birth, or revival. Specifically:

Revival. [R.]

Revival of a suit which is abated by the death or marriage of any of the parties, -- done by a bill of revivor. Blackstone.

The act of vivifying, or the state of being vivified; restoration of life; revival. Bacon.

The revival of an action. Burrill. They were too much ashamed to bring any wakening of the process against Janet. Sir W. Scott.