resurrectionist

[ rez-uh-rek-shuh-nist ]

/ ˌrɛz əˈrɛk ʃə nɪst /

a person who brings something to life or view again.

a believer in resurrection.

Also called resurrection man. a person who exhumes and steals dead bodies, especially for dissection; body snatcher.

Origin of resurrectionist

First recorded in 1770–80; resurrection + -ist

In a sense it does not belong to the resurrectionist movement, but as it relates indirectly to it, it may be given.

The History of Burke and Hare |George Mac Gregor
You have been a resurrectionist (as it is called), I understand?

The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 2/2 |Camden Pelham
Taylor was recognised as a notorious body-snatcher, or resurrectionist, and Martin was an undertaker.

The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 2/2 |Camden Pelham
We doubt whether ever resurrectionist felt himself in such a quandary.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 408, January 1849 |Various

He belonged to a gang that worked for the Resurrectionist, an inhabitant of the Borough, who was a famous trader to the surgeons.

The Road to Paris |Robert Neilson Stephens

resurrectionist

/ (ˌrɛzəˈrɛkʃənɪst) /

facetious (formerly) a body snatcher

a member of an Anglican religious community founded in 1892

a person who believes in the Resurrection