The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Revival \Re*viv"al\, n. [From Revive.]
   The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
   Specifically:
   (a) Renewed attention to something, as to letters or
       literature.
   (b) Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the
       drama and literature.
   (c) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and
       decline; a period of religious awakening; special
       religious interest.
   (d) Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; --
       applied to the health, spirits, and the like.
   (e) Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of
       something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture.
   (f) Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a
       fashion.
   (g) (Law) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal;
       as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the
       revival of a revoked will, etc.
   (h) Revivification, as of a metal. See Revivification, 2.
       [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

revival
    n 1: bringing again into activity and prominence; "the revival
         of trade"; "a revival of a neglected play by Moliere"; "the
         Gothic revival in architecture" [syn: revival,
         resurgence, revitalization, revitalisation,
         revivification]
    2: an evangelistic meeting intended to reawaken interest in
       religion [syn: revival, revival meeting]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

253 Moby Thesaurus words for "revival":
   Great Leap Forward, Mass, about-face, accommodation, adaptation,
   adjustment, advance, advancement, alteration, amelioration,
   amendment, animation, apostasy, ascent, awakening, bedtime prayer,
   bettering, betterment, bibliolatry, boost, bracer, bracing, break,
   camp meeting, change, change of allegiance, change of heart,
   change of mind, changeableness, charismatic gift,
   charismatic movement, charismatic renewal, church, church service,
   comeback, compline, constructive change, continuity, conversion,
   copy, cordial, defection, degeneration, degenerative change,
   deterioration, deviation, devotions, difference, discontinuity,
   divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, divine service,
   duplication, duty, energizing, enhancement, enlivenment,
   enrichment, escalation, eugenics, euthenics, evening devotions,
   evensong, exercises, exhilaration, fanaticism, fitting, flip-flop,
   furtherance, gift of tongues, glossolalia, gradual change, headway,
   imitation, improvement, increase, invigoration, lauds, lift,
   liturgy, looking back, matins, meeting, melioration, memory, mend,
   mending, mitigation, modification, modulation, morning devotions,
   new birth, night song, none, nones, novena, office, overdevoutness,
   overpiousness, overreligiousness, overrighteousness, overthrow,
   overzealousness, palingenesis, palingenesy, pentecostalism,
   pick-me-up, pickup, praise meeting, prayer, prayer meeting,
   prayers, preferment, prime, prime song, progress, progression,
   promotion, public worship, qualification, quickening,
   radical change, ransom, re-creation, re-formation, realignment,
   reanimation, rebirth, rebuilding, recapture, reclaiming,
   reclamation, recollection, reconstitution, reconstruction, recoup,
   recoupment, recovery, recreation, recrudescence, recuperation,
   redemption, redesign, redoing, reedition, reestablishment,
   reexperiencing, refashioning, refection, reform, reformation,
   refreshing, refreshment, regainment, regale, regalement,
   regeneracy, regenerateness, regeneration, regenesis, reinstitution,
   reinvigoration, reissue, rejuvenation, rejuvenescence, reliving,
   remaking, remembrance, reminiscence, renaissance, renascence,
   renewal, renovation, reoccupation, reorganization, repetition,
   replevin, replevy, repossession, reprinting, reproduction,
   reshaping, restoration, restructuring, resumption, resurgence,
   resurrection, resuscitation, retake, retaking, retrieval, retrieve,
   retrospection, return, returning, reversal, revindication,
   revision, revitalization, revival meeting, revivalism,
   revivescence, revivescency, revivification, revolution, rise,
   salvage, sanctimony, second wind, second youth, service, sext,
   shift, stimulation, sudden change, switch, tent meeting, tierce,
   tonic, total change, transition, trover, turn, turnabout,
   undersong, upbeat, upheaval, uplift, upping, upsurge, upswing,
   uptrend, upturn, upward mobility, variation, variety, vesper,
   vespers, vigils, violent change, vitalization, vivification,
   watch meeting, watch night, watch-night service, worsening, youth,
   zeal, zealotism, zealotry, zealousness



Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

REVIVAL, contracts. An agreement to renew the legal obligation of a just
debt, after it has been barred by the act of limitation or lapse of time, is
called its revival. Vide Promise.



Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

REVIVAL, practice. The act by which a judgment, which has lain dormant or
without any action upon it for a year and a day is, at common law, again
restored to its original force.