resurrectionize

English

Etymology

resurrection +‎ -ize

Verb

resurrectionize (third-person singular simple present resurrectionizes, present participle resurrectionizing, simple past and past participle resurrectionized)

1. (transitive, archaic) To resurrect, or raise from the dead.
   • March 14 1804, Robert Southey, letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge

     you will stare at the catalogue of dead authors whom I shall have to resurrectionise

2. To remove a body from its grave (illegally, for dissection); to engage in bodysnatching.
   • 1846, George W.M. Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 1, London: George Vickers, page 338:

     "Remember, the law now punishes with transportation those who resurrectionize, and those who encourage resurrectionists."

References

• “resurrectionize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.