Meaning

(archaic, intransitive, botany) To bud or sprout again..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic, intransitive, botany) To bud or sprout again.
2. (by extension) To come back to life.
3. To reappear.
4. (medicine) To regrow or reemerge after having been removed.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

• repullulates
• repullulating
• repullulated

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