repullulate

Verb

1. 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.,...
   • 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...
   • nay, though quite cut down, they repullulate and produce young Suckers. - 1729, John Evelyn, Silva: Or, a Discourse of Forest-trees, page 163:
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. - 1648, Robert Herrick, “His Age, Dedicated to his Peculiar Friend, M. John Wickes, under the Name of...
   • 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...
   • 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. - 1843, Benjamin Church, Thomas Church, The History of Philip's War:...
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...
   • 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...
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 - 1832 November 24, M. Le Baron Dupuytren, “On Osseous Cysts, and Their...
   • 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:
   • Papillomata in children is a self-limited disease, and if the airway is kept open the growths will cease to repullulate. - 1943, William Lincoln Ballenger, Howard Charles Ballenger, Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear:...