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resurrectionist

/rez-uh-rek-shuh-nist/US // ˌrɛz əˈrɛk ʃə nɪst //UK // (ˌrɛzəˈrɛkʃənɪst) //

复活者,死而复生者,复活主义者,复活节

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who brings something to life or view again.
    • : a believer in resurrection.
    • : Also called resurrection man . a person who exhumes and steals dead bodies, especially for dissection; body snatcher.

Examples

  • One of these handed over portions of a Diary he had kept during his resurrectionist days.

  • You have been a resurrectionist (as it is called) I understand?

  • His regular trade, followed before he took to the life of resurrectionist, was that of an engraver.

  • This put an end for a time to the resurrectionist fever in Glasgow, but it was shrewdly suspected that other cases occurred.

  • A record of the share which the doctors themselves took in the resurrectionist work has not been well preserved.