How can it be revived

The supplied sources do not set out a defined legal procedure for reviving or reconstituting a dormant or defunct lodge. Instead, they record historical debates over dormant warrants alongside the general procedures for constituting a new lodge.

Whether a dormant warrant may be revived at will or requires formal re-absorption by a Grand Lodge has historically been a subject of jurisdictional debate 1. In cases such as St. Andrew's Lodge in Boston, a lodge that had separated was eventually re-absorbed into its superior organization without loss of rank, though a Grand Lodge might regard such a restoration as an act of condonation rather than a vindication of the lodge's legal right 1. Historical accounts also distinguish between lodges operating under derivative authority and immemorial lodges—such as the Lodge of Antiquity—which possessed an inherent right to meet that preceded the warranting system 12.

Where new lodges are formed, the process requires a petition signed by at least seven Master Masons addressed to the Grand Master 23, the granting of a dispensation 3, and the formal ceremonies of consecration and constitution 2. The sources do not specify whether this same petitioning framework is formally required to reactivate a dormant warrant.