The term is technically used in psychology for the process of reviving in the mind percepts of objects formerly given in sense perception.
The form and style of his writings show the influence of those classical studies which were now reviving throughout Christendom.
The fabric of our judicial legislation commences in 1166 with the Assize of Clarendon, the first object of which was to provide for the order of the realm by reviving the old English system of mutual security or frankpledge.
This reviving of old and beginning of new friendships, with the hearty hospitality lavished upon us from all sides, left delightful remembrances.
Observing the tendency which Protestantism had, while bereft of its pastors, to run into gloomy forms of fanaticism, Antoine Court conceived the idea of reviving the pastorate, and restoring the proscribed Protestant Church of France.
Some of the soldiers who were in the cars threw their canteens to her, and she succeeded in reviving him; during this time the crowd heaped upon her every insulting epithet they could think of, and her life even was in danger.
The exact method of reviving in Congress the whole subject of slavery so soon after nullification had been so signally suppressed by Jackson is worth briefly stating.
Still another form of breathing appliance may well be taken on these rescue expeditions, and that is the reviving apparatus, for use upon those who have apparently ceased to breathe.
Her voice sunk with the word, but presently reviving she added, "I am thankful to find that I can look with so little pain on the spot!
Nor am I reviving what may be called the old Native American cry, for we have outlived that.
I am not to-day reviving the Know-Nothing cry, for I am glad to say that I am not a know-nothing in any sense.
Truly those drops were more precious to the dying man; they had the effect of instantly reviving him.
How eagerly I looked towards the spot where I believed the means of reviving our fast-failing strength could be found!
He spoke in a cheerful tone, which had a reviving effect upon me.
To match an English and a Scottish author in the rival task of embodying and reviving the traditions of their respective countries, would be, you alleged, in the highest degree unequal and unjust.
North and south and west it has spread, rousing China out of centuries of slumber, stirring India into ominous questioning, reviving memories of past glory in Persia, breeding discontent in Egypt, and luring Turkey onto the rocks.
Now, too, the reviving interest in England of the scheme for the discovery of the North-West Passage infected the French.
Of the other merchants who followed Henry in reviving the old route, the first to make a notable adventure was the Scotchman Thomas Curry.
His pretensions to the Scottish crown had been so decidedly repelled by the Scots, that he had given up all idea of ever reviving them; and for some private offence he had been thrown into prison.
Instead of a sudden but transient influx of wealth, made by the ruin of the land, which left the country desolate, a regular and permanent revenue sprang up, produced by reviving prosperity, and gathered without violence.
Kate,' murmured Mrs Nickleby, reviving when the coast was clear, 'is he gone?
Or it was summer and too hot to walk, but glorious to gallop in the early morning over the rough road and down the hollow to where the brook broadened into a swimming-pool that called him to bathe in itsreviving water.
Without waiting for our thanks, she then gave to each a chair, and fetched great plenty of fuel, with which she made an ample and most reviving fire, in a large stove that was placed in the middle of the room.
The conversation was general, and consisted mostly in inquiries after former friends, and in reviving the recollection of the histories of old times.
This ceremony is never practised but to princes of the blood, and we considered, therefore, the honours of this day as a further proof of the reviving influence of the English name.
And, with such a power ofreviving the past, even the dulness of the little Boeotian town was easily tolerable.
The revival of Delphi gladdened the heart of Plutarch as a sign of reviving religion and Hellenism.
He is, however, very much puzzled to devise any mode of intervention, which would have the effect of reviving French trade and obtaining cotton.
I shall, however, set about reviving my impressions of certain epochs, at first without order or sequence, just as things come back to me.
On the other hand, those who were enamored of federal government observed with uneasiness that the consular authority tended toward a centralization which was by degrees reviving the idea of royalty.
Staël, have endeavored to stigmatize that institution by reviving the recollection of an English caricature which represented Bonaparte cutting up the bonnet rouge of the Revolution to make the crosses of the Legion.
To the French people it seemed that Prussia, barely mistress of Germany, wasreviving against France the traditional policy of the Habsburgs.
The Christian missions which others were reviving in Prussia and beginning in Hungary were undertaken on a vaster scale by the Capets.
Bourbon, were revivingthe saturnalia of Alaric in the sack of Rome (1527).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reviving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bracing; invigorating; refreshing; restorative; stimulating; strengthening; tonic; vital
