Word.ws English Dictionary

resurrectionise

resurrectionise is the alternative form of resurrectionize.

Meaning of resurrectionize

Verb

resurrectionize (third-person singular simple present resurrectionizes, present participle resurrectionizing, simple past and past participle resurrectionized)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To resurrect, or raise from the dead.
    • March 14 1804, Robert Southey, letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      you will stare at the catalogue of dead authors whom I shall have to resurrectionise
  2. To remove a body from its grave (illegally, for dissection); to engage in bodysnatching.
    • "Remember, the law now punishes with transportation those who resurrectionize, and those who encourage resurrectionists."1846, George W.M. Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 1, London: George Vickers, page 338

Forms of resurrectionise

third-person singular presentresurrectionises
present participleresurrectionising
past participleresurrectionised
pastresurrectionised

Questions about resurrectionise

What is resurrectionise the alternative form of?
Resurrectionise is the alternative form of resurrectionize.

Words near resurrectionise in the dictionary

  1. resurrection-men
  2. resurrectional
  3. resurrectionary
  4. resurrectioner
  5. resurrectioners
  6. resurrectionise
  7. resurrectionised
  8. resurrectionises
  9. resurrectionising
  10. resurrectionism
  11. resurrectionist

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: resurrectionise (page history and authors); resurrectionize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “resurrectionise.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/resurrectionise. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.