repullulate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To bud or sprout again.

   • Though tares repullulate, there is wheat still left in the field.
   • The Arbutus, doubtful, and so are Bays; but some will escape, and most of them repullulate and spring afresh , if cut down near the Earth, at the latter End of the Month.
   • nay, though quite cut down, they repullulate and produce young Suckers.
2. 2

   To come back to life.

   • But vanisht man, Like to a Lilly-lost, nere can, Nere can repullulate, or bring His dayes to see a second Spring.
   • yet they eat one another, every day; but anon, God restores and renews the man that was eaten, as a cropt plant in a little time repullulates.
3. 3

   To reappear.

   • Thus is the Lord pleased to deal with us, he suffers Heresies to repullulate, that they who are appoved among us may be manifested.
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   1. 4

      To regrow or reemerge after having been removed.

      • The materials of the cysts, when not entirely destroyed, repullulate with great facility, and have been known to be renewed to or three times
      • They do not infiltrate, hence are not malignant, but they repullulate in a most stubborn manner if any portion is left.
      • Papillomata in children is a self-limited disease, and if the airway is kept open the growths will cease to repullulate.

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