resurrection man
nounEtymology
resurrection (“the act of rising from the dead and becoming alive again”) + man
Definitions
A man who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses…
A man who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.
- Persons (under the name of resurrection-men) continue their business, getting from 1 guinea to 5 or 6, according to the value set upon the corpse they take up.
- Earlier exhumations seem to have caused very little popular concern;... but later... the trade of ‘resurrection man’ became commoner, and attracted the lowest dregs of the vicious classes.
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