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What is a resurrectionist?

What is a resurrectionist? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (euphemistic, historical) One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.
  2. (religion) A believer in a future bodily resurrection.
  3. One who resurrects an abandoned idea, practice, etc.; a revivalist.
  4. (humorous) One who sells repaired or reconditioned goods; a refurbisher.
  5. (humorous) A racehorse that (once or numerously) suddenly recovers its stamina midrace.
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We doubt whether ever resurrectionist felt himself in such a quandary.
But peering from the 87 window, he saw that the resurrectionist was a dog, which already had its teeth in the cloak.
Taylor was recognised as a notorious body-snatcher, or resurrectionist, and Martin was an undertaker.
Iron coffins were also used by some persons to protect their friends from the resurrectionist.
One of these handed over portions of a Diary he had kept during his resurrectionist days.
But then the idea is allowed to run away with itself as Victor's classmates, less soulful and more selfish than he, try out their own resurrectionist experiments.

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