Associations to the word «Resurrectionist»

RESURRECTIONIST, noun. (euphemistic) (historical) One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.

RESURRECTIONIST, noun. (religion) A believer in a future bodily resurrection.

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

RESURRECTIONIST, noun. (jocular) (obsolete) One who sells repaired or reconditioned goods; a refurbisher.

RESURRECTIONIST, noun. (horses) (jocular) (obsolete) A racehorse that (once or numerously) suddenly recovers its stamina midrace.