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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--redivivus This week's theme: adjectives used postpositively. redivivus (red-uh-VY-vuhs) adjective Revived or reborn. [From Latin re- (again) + vivus (living).] -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "[C.S. Lewis] thought 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' paganism redivivus, which perhaps it was." Roger Lewis Burgess; Yes, I Admit, God is God; New York Times; Nov 2, 1986. X-Bonus Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed. -Henrik Ibsen, playwright (1828-1906)

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