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resuscitation, the act of reviving, bringing back to life:
(
c.1136-65; MS: c.1200
)
Cele nature del leon En nostre Salveor notum, Ki fait sun resucitement De ses caelx naturelment (=a quality ascribed to lions in medieval bestiaries)Salemon 11663
♦theol.resuscitation, miraculous restoration to life (through divine intervention):
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s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim
)
nus savum bien tuit le boneuré Symeon, le grant sacerdote, ki receut Jhesum l’emfaunt entre ses mains el temple. E icil Symeon out dous fiz freres germains que nus veimes tuit murir e fumus a lur sepulture. [...] si nus dirrunt de lur resuscitement (at the time of J.C.’s resurrection)Evang Nic Prose2 16v
(
1275; MS: s.xiii4/4
)
tuz prya A rendre grace joyusement Pur le estraunge resuscytement (of a child)S FranANTS 6936
resuscitement (c.1136-65)