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To rouse; to excite; to call into life and action. [Obs.]

To rouse; to excite. [Obs.] Johnson.

To revivify; to revive; especially, to recover or restore from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants.

suasion or other means; to cause to change sides or an opinion. -- To bring to. (a) To resuscitate; to bring back to consciousness or life, as a fainting person. (b) (Naut.) To check the course of, as of a ship, by dropping the anchor, or by counterbracing the sails so as to keep her nearly stationary (she is then sai…

See Exsuscitate [Obs.] T. Adams.

Incapable of being resuscitated or revived. -- Ir`re*sus"ci*ta*bly, adv.

To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite. The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead. Shak. Like a fruitful garden without an hedge, that quickens the appetite to enjoy so tempting a prize. South.

One who, or that which resuscitates. Also used adjectively.

The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated. The subject of resuscitation by his sorceries. Sir W. Scott.

Tending to resuscitate; reviving; revivifying.

One who, or that which, resuscitates.

Capability of being suscitated; excitability. [Obs.] B. Jonson.