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):
(
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 Fran ANTS 6936