Definitions For Resurrectionist

Noun

RESURRECTIONIST (plural RESURRECTIONISTs) (euphemistic, historical) One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber. : Synonym: bodysnatcher, resurrectioner, resurrection man (religion) A believer in a future bodily resurrection. One who resurrects an abandoned idea, practice, etc.; a revivalist. (jocular, obsolete) One who sells repaired or reconditioned goods; a refurbisher. (horses, jocular, obsolete) A racehorse that (once or numerously) suddenly recovers its stamina midrace.

Etymology

From {{af, en, resurrection, t1=the act of rising from the dead and becoming alive again, -ist, t2=forms agents of cause; forms adherents of a belief}}, coined alongside resurrection man.