Usually means: Grave robber for medical study.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. resurrectionist: Merriam-Webster
  2. resurrectionist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. resurrectionist: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Resurrectionist, resurrectionist: Wordnik
  5. resurrectionist: Wiktionary
  6. resurrectionist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. resurrectionist: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. resurrectionist: Dictionary.com
  9. Resurrectionist (novel), Resurrectionist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Resurrectionist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. resurrectionist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Resurrectionist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. resurrectionist: FreeDictionary.org
  14. resurrectionist: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. resurrectionist: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (resurrectionist)

noun:  (euphemistic, historical) One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.
noun:  (religion) A believer in a future bodily resurrection.
noun:  One who resurrects an abandoned idea, practice, etc.; a revivalist.
noun:  (humorous, obsolete) One who sells repaired or reconditioned goods; a refurbisher.
noun:  (equestrianism, humorous, obsolete) A racehorse that (once or numerously) suddenly recovers its stamina midrace.

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