Word Meanings - REVIVOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Revival of a suit which is abated by the death or marriage of any of the parties, -- done by a bill of revivor. Blackstone.

Related words: (words related to REVIVOR)

• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• ABATVOIX
  The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• ABATER
  One who, or that which, abates.
• ABATE
  1. To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay. 2. To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates. To abate
• DEATHWATCH
  A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• REVIVALISM
  The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists.
• DEATHWARD
  Toward death.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• ABATTOIR
  A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.
• REVIVAL
  The act of reviving, or the state of being revived. Specifically: Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature. Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature. Renewed interest in religion,
• ABATEMENT
  A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon. (more info) 1. The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof. 2. The amount
• ABATURE
  Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.
• MARRIAGEABILITY
  The quality or state of being marriageable.
• ABATISED
  Provided with an abatis.
• MARRIAGE
  1. The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony. Marriage is honorable in all. Heb. xiii. 4. 2. The marriage vow or contract. Chaucer. 3. A feast made on
• DEATH
  Loss of spiritual life. To be death. Rom. viii. 6. 9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16. Note: Death
• DEATHFULNESS
  Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.
• ABATOR
  One who abates a nuisance. A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• RABATINE
  A collar or cape. Sir W. Scott.
• ANABATIC
  Pertaining to anabasis; as, an anabatic fever.
• DIABATERIAL
  Passing over the borders. Mitford.
• ADIABATIC
  Not giving out or receiving heat. -- Ad`i*a*bat`ic*al*ly, adv. Adiabatic line or curve, a curve exhibiting the variations of pressure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat. Rankine.
• STABAT MATER
  A celebrated Latin hymn, beginning with these words, commemorating the sorrows of the mother of our Lord at the foot of the cross. It is read in the Mass of the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary, and is sung by Catholics when making "the way of the cross"