Meaning of repullulate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To bud or sprout again.
   archaic, intransitive
2. To come back to life.
   broadly
3. To reappear.
4. To regrow or reemerge after having been removed.

Examples

“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.”

“But vanisht man, Like to a Lilly-lost, nere can, Nere can repullulate, or bring His dayes to see a second Spring.”

“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 may be allowed so to speak) did yet survive and put forth another very eminent Head and Horns, now of a long Time visible, and terrible enough to the Beholders, in the Turkish Empire.”

“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.”

“We also have a saw that runs: "The mountebank always gets his man" The man, comprehensively got, studded with shards of his own petard, tore himself from the Hong Kong racetrack to repullulate before the committee, now transformed from a body of enquiry to the audience of a popular television soap.”

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

“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 Temptations we vanquish and subdue, the more will multiply upon us still.”

“The evil may be momentarily kept back by the reigning spirit of public opinion, but the seeds still exist, and, not unlike the germs of the plague suppressed by the re-appearance of wintry seasons, they are ready to repullulate at the first favourable opportunity .”

“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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