resurrectionize

verb2

1. •
   To remove a body from its grave (illegally, for dissection); to engage in bodysnatching.

   • "Remember, the law now punishes with transportation those who resurrectionize, and those who encourage resurrectionists." — 1846
2. •
   (no longer used) To resurrect, or raise from the dead.

   • March 14 1804, Robert Southey, letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge you will stare at the catalogue of dead authors whom I shall have to resurrectionise