repullulate

Verb

repullulate (third-person singular simple present repullulates, present participle repullulating, simple past and past participle repullulated)

1. (archaic, intransitive) To bud or sprout again.
   • Though tares repullulate, there is wheat still left in the field.1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC
   • 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.1722, John Lowthorp, The Philosophical Transactions and Collections, to the End of the Year 1700
2. (broadly) 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.1648, Robert Herrick, “His Age, Dedicated to his Peculiar Friend, M. John Wickes, under the Name of Posthumus”, in Hesperides, or The Works Both Humane & Divine of Robert Herrick
   • When the Dragon, or Beast actuated by the Dragon, had received a mortal Wound by Constantine, and the Hydra's Head was cut off at ancient Rome, it did, in Process of Time, repullulate in Constantinople, so that the Beast , which had a Wound in his primary, principal, and most capital Head, (if I...1728, Nathaniel Marwick, Stricture Lucis, page 321
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.1675, Alexander Ross, Πανσεβεια, or, A View of all Religions in the World etc, page 3
   • As the Poets write of that many-headed-Monster Hydra, that Hercules encounter'd with; that still the more Heads he cut off, the more did repullulate, and spring up in their rooms: So we fhall find it true of that uncouth monster of Sin that is bred in our Natures, the more Corruptions and...1679, William Gearing, The Sacred Diary, page 211
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 times1832 November 24, M. Le Baron Dupuytren, “On Osseous Cysts, and Their Parietes”, in The Lancet, volume 1, number 482, page 260
   • They do not infiltrate, hence are not malignant, but they repullulate in a most stubborn manner if any portion is left.1907, Chevalier Jackson, Tracheo-bronchoscopy, Esophagoscopy and Gastroscopy, page 114