resurrectionist
One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses…One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.
Meaning
5 senses(euphemistic, historical)One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.
A believer in a future bodily resurrection.
One who resurrects an abandoned idea, practice, etc.; a revivalist.
(humorous, obsolete)One who sells repaired or reconditioned goods; a refurbisher.
(humorous, obsolete)A racehorse that (once or numerously) suddenly recovers its stamina midrace.
Origin
From resurrection (“the act of rising from the dead and becoming alive again”) + -ist (“foFrom resurrection (“the act of rising from the dead and becoming alive again”) + -ist (“forms agents of cause; forms adherents of a belief”), coined alongside resurrection man.
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Forms
plural: resurrectionists| Singular | resurrectionist |
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Synonyms
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