Resurrection - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Resurrection :  (noun)
1: (New Testament) the rising of Christ on the third day after the Crucifixion [syn: Resurrection, Christ's Resurrection, Resurrection of Christ]
2: revival from inactivity and disuse; "it produced a resurrection of hope"

Based on WordNet 2.0

Resurrection : \Res`ur*rec"tion\, n. [F. r['e]surrection, L. resurrectio, fr. resurgere, resurrectum, to rise again; pref. re- re- _ surgere to rise. See Source.] 1. A rising again; the resumption of vigor.

2. Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption of life by the dead; as, the resurrection of Jesus Christ; the general resurrection of all the dead at the Day of Judgment.

Nor after resurrection shall he stay Longer on earth. --Milton.

3. State of being risen from the dead; future state.

In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage. --Matt. xxii. 30.

4. The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.

I am the resurrection, and the life. --John xi. 25.

Cross of the resurrection, a slender cross with a pennant floating from the junction of the bars.

Resurrection plant (Bot.), a name given to several species of Selaginella (as S. convoluta and S. lepidophylla), flowerless plants which, when dry, close up so as to resemble a bird's nest, but revive and expand again when moistened. The name is sometimes also given to the rose of Jericho. See under Rose.

Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)

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