The function of the prophet was then revived, and poets founded schools

for the first time aspired to teach the art of life, and J. R. Seeley , Nat. Religion, p. 92. 5. To renovate. [Colloq.] The boy. his master's. appeared... in a revived black coat of Dickens , Sketches, Tales, i. 6. To reproduce; represent after a lapse of time, especially upon the stage: as, to revive an old play. A past, vamp'd, future, old, reviv'd new piece, 'Twixt Plautus, Fletcher, Shake spear, and Corneille, Can make a Cibber, Tibbald, or Ozell. Pope , Dunciad, i. 284. Already in the latter days of the Republic the multitude (including even the knights, according to Horace) could only be reconciled to tragedy by the introduction of that species of acce ories by which in our own day a play of Shakspere's is said to be revived . A. W. Ward, Eng. Dram. Lit., I. 8. 7. In law , to reinstate, as an action or suit which has become abated. See revival , 7.-8. In chem ., to restore or reduce to its natural state or to its metallic state: as, to revive a metal after calcination. =Syn. 1 and 2. To reanimate, reinvigorate, renew, reinspirit, cheer, hearten. See the quo tation under revitalize . revivet, n. Revival; return to life. Hee is dead, and therefore grieue not thy memorie with the imagination of his new reuiue .