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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.
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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.
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Nor after resurrection shall he stay
Longer on earth. --Milton.
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3. State of being risen from the dead; future state.
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In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given
in marriage. --Matt. xxii.
30.
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4. The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.
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I am the resurrection, and the life. --John xi. 25.
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{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 {Selaginella convoluta} and
{Selaginella 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}.
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