To revive. The word is found in the Annual Register for 1772, p. 174. (N.E.D.)
1852. I never want that to be resurrected, but let it die in the grave, and sleep an eternal sleep.—Brigham Young, March 4: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ i. 33.
1852. [You have not] power to resurrect yourselves.—Brigham Young, Aug. 28: id., vi. 275.
1852. You will never obtain your resurrected bodies, until you bring your spirits into subjection.—H. C. Kimball at the Mormon Tabernacle, Nov. 14: id., i. 355.
1853. The world of resurrected beings, and the world of spirits, are two distinct spheres, as much so as our own sphere is distinct from that of the spirit world.—Elder P. P. Pratt, April 7: id., i. 9.
1854. He … had never heard of such tricks of trade as sending out coffins to the graveyard, with negroes inside, carried off by sudden spells of imaginary disease, to be “resurrected” in due time, grinning, on the banks of the Brazos.—J. G. Baldwin, ‘Flush Times,’ p. 93.
1854. Bates said ‘it [the word] was ‘rejuvify’—that is, ‘drag-out,’ ‘resurrect.’’—H. H. Riley, ‘Puddleford,’ p. 189 (N.Y.). (Italics in the original.)
1865. Until I have received my resurrected body.—Brigham Young, quoted in the Olympian (W.T.) Pioneer, Feb. 24.
1857. I should feel worse than I now do, if I knew that Joseph was resurrected and had not paid us a visit, which he most assuredly will do, when that period arrives.—Brigham Young, March 15: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ iv. 286.
1857. I do not think that many ever suppose that animals are going to be resurrected.—H. C. Kimball at the Bowery, Salt Lake City, Aug. 2: id., v. 137.
1859. A short time ago the cry was, “[Henry A.] Wise is dead and never can be resurrected.”—Richmond Whig, Sept. 23, p. 4/8: from the Staunton Vindicator.
1860. We appeal to every Democrat … to pause before he takes the fatal leap into resurrected Know-nothingism.—Richmond Enquirer, Aug. 21, p. 2/1.
1861. Mr. Marmaduke Johnson said, at the Electoral Dinner: “I could take [South Carolina] by the neck, and throw her into the bottomless pit, never to be resurrected.”—Richmond Enquirer, Jan. 25, p. 2/2.
1861. I shall not stop to resurrect the bones of John Brown.—Mr. Harris of Virginia, House of Repr., Feb. 6: Cong. Globe., p. 153, App.
1861. Where did this [higher] law come from? It made its appearance at the time the Mormon Bible came up; it seemed to rise with it, as if then resurrected.—Mr. Aaron Harding of Ky., the same, Dec. 17: id., p. 30/3, App.
1863. The succeeding history of the Navy-yard—of the resurrected guns and restored frigate Merrimac.—O. J. Victor, ‘The History … of the Southern Rebellion,’ ii. 113.
1869. During the ten days or a fortnight we staid there [in Naples] one paper was murdered and resurrected twice.—Mark Twain, ‘The Innocents Abroad,’ ch. xxxiv.
1877. I fought for the conspiracy, but that issue is dead. It will never be resurrected, at least in my day.—Corr., Boston Herald, Sept. 23 (Bartlett).
1906. To call the lunar maria seas may not be so complete a misnomer after all; but only a resurrecting in epitaph what was truth in its day.—Percival Lowell, ‘Mars and its Canals,’ p. 130.
1907. “Where? Where?” cried Marco, leaping up like one resurrected.—Church Standard, Phila., Oct. 12, p. 775.
1909. They are certain that the moment [Isio] is executed one of his followers, calling himself Isio resurrected, will start trouble in the mountains.—N.Y. Evening Post, March 11.
