2. Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption
of life by the dead; as, the resurrection of Jesus Christ;
the general resurrection of all the dead at the Day of
Judgment.
Nor after resurrection shall he stay Longer on
earth. --Milton.
3. State of being risen from the dead; future state.
In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given
in marriage. --Matt. xxii.
30.
4. The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.
I am the resurrection, and the life. --John xi. 25.
{Cross of the resurrection}, a slender cross with a pennant
floating from the junction of the bars.
{Resurrection plant} (Bot.), a name given to several species
of {Selaginella} (as {S. convoluta} and {S.
lepidophylla}), flowerless plants which, when dry, close
up so as to resemble a bird's nest, but revive and expand
again when moistened. The name is sometimes also given to
the rose of Jericho. See under {Rose}.