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repullulate, v.|rɪˈpʊljʊleɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of L. repullulāre (Pliny): see pullulate.]
1. intr. To bud or sprout again. Also fig. Hence reˈpullulating ppl. a.
1623in Cockeram. 1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. Ep. A iij, The repullulating twigges and sprigges of Popish superstition. 1674Phil. Trans. IX. 110 These Tufts did as often repullulate, as they were struck and wiped clean off. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. 85 Soon after the Gothick Barbarity repullulated again. 1822E. Nathan Langreath III. 290 Whose branches I fear are withered, never to repullulate again.
2. Path. Of diseases: To start afresh; to recur.
1762R. Guy Pract. Obs. Cancers 14 The Disease is apt to repullulate, and speedily prove fatal. a1776R. James Diss. Fevers (1778) 84 Such [fevers] as are symptomatic, and repullulate constantly from a permanent cause. |