Res`ur*rec"tion (?), n.
[F. résurrection, L. resurrectio, fr. resurgere,
resurrectum, to rise again; pref. re- re- + surgere to rise. See Source.]
1. A rising again; the resumption of vigor.
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.
Nor after resurrection shall he stay
Longer on earth.
Milton.
3. State of being risen from the dead; future state.
In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given
in marriage.
Matt. xxii. 30. 4.
The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.
I am the resurrection, and the life.
John xi. 25. 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 S. convoluta and S. 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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