resurrection Copy link • resurrection: rĕsurrectio (as an eccl. term): I am the r. and the life, ego sum r. et vita, Vulg. Joan. xi. 25: Eccl.: the day of our Lord's r., *dies dominicae resurrectionis: the r.-day, *dies, tempus quo in vitam redibunt mortui (Kr.): it may also be expr. by the verbs rĕvīvisco, vixi, 3 (to live again, come to life); rĕnascor, nātus, 3 (to be born again).