\Res`ur*rec"tion\, n. [F. r['e]surrection, L.
resurrectio, fr. resurgere, resurrectum, to rise again; pref.
re- re- + surgere to rise. See {Source}.]
1. A rising again; the resumption of vigor.
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}.