resurrectionist

n. 盗尸者 [医] 盗尸解剖者

词形变化

resurrectionists 复数 resurrectionists

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.

    委婉 历史
  2. 2.

    A believer in a future bodily resurrection.

    宗教

    1830, A. Addis, Theory of Prophecy, Prol. p.xliv Those who make the rest of the dead... to be the same with the remnant slain by the sword... to be consistent, ought to make the first resurrectionists the same with the armies in heaven.

  3. 3.

    One who resurrects an abandoned idea, practice, etc.; a revivalist.

    Bank is a theatrical resurrectionist: His New York-based company... specializes in unearthing and staging ‘neglected but worthy’ works.

  4. 4.

    One who sells repaired or reconditioned goods; a refurbisher.

    幽默 废旧

    Some of the habitual buyers [of ostrich feathers] have nicknames, and those who do a local business and buy for re-selling are known as ‘resurrectionists’.

  5. 5.

    A racehorse that (once or numerously) suddenly recovers its stamina midrace.

    幽默 废旧 动物学 体育

    There is a class of horses called ‘resurrectionists’... and they either recover early form... or... become animated, when they were supposed to be gone altogether, with... life and vigour.

词源

From 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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