repullulatev.
/ˌriːˈpʌljᵿleɪt/, U.S. /ˌriˈpəljəˌleɪt/ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > originate, derive, or arise [verb (intransitive)] > arise gradually, develop, or evolve > again
repullulate1608
regerminate1623
1608 in J. B. Craven Rec. Dioceses Argyll & Isles (1907) 61 Heresy of Roman superstition in ilk corner still repullulating and increasing.
1674 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 9 110 These Tufts did as often repullulate, as they were struck and wiped clean off.
1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 85 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Soon after the Gothick Barbarity repullulated again.
1754 J. Rutty Spiritual Diary 2 Nov. (1776) 25 Old Adam is not yet put off; but his native fierceness and impatience repullulate.
1822 E. Nathan Langreath III. 290 Whose branches I fear are withered, never to repullulate again.
2. intransitive. Medicine. Of a disease, symptom, etc.: to relapse, recur. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > become diseased [verb (intransitive)] > arise > recur
recur1670
repullulate1714
1714 D. Turner De Morbis Cutaneis i. ii. 23 Yet did the scurfy Scab repullulate in several Places.
1730 T. Dale tr. J. Freind Nine Comm. Fevers 92 The Fever which constantly attends the Small-Pox that are crowded, creates great Disorders; wherefore some Persons have taken very great pains that it should not repullulate.
1762 R. Guy Pract. Observ. Cancers 14 The Disease is apt to repullulate, and speedily prove fatal.
a1776 R. James Vindic. Fever Powder in Diss. Fevers (1778) 84 Such [fevers] as are symptomatic, and repullulate constantly from a permanent cause.
1844 S. Ashwell Pract. Treat. Dis. Women ii. viii. 711 If they are snipped off with scissors, and the part allowed spontaneously to heal, there is every probability that it will repullulate.
1888 Med. News 3 Nov. 506/2 When forcibly removed, they repullulate quickly.
1910 Amer. Jrnl. Dermatol. Jan. 41/1 Something commonly lurks behind, from whence the seemingly extinguished disease may repullulate again and gather new force.
Derivatives
ˌreˈpullulating adj. now rare
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1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies Epist. sig. A3 The repullulating twigges and sprigges of Popish superstition.
1744 tr. G. van Swieten Comm. Aphorisms Boerhaave II. clviii. 28 We first observe..repullulating vessels in the bottom of the wound, which..appear to shoot out from the sides, and..fill up the cavity.
1839 Christian Examiner & Gen. Rev. Jan. 279 Grecian pedantry blasphemed and outraged the new creed with a thousand futilities of ever repullulating heresies.
1902 W. Bradshaw tr. Seneca Hercules Furens in Ten Trag. 51 The Hydra of Lerna itself..in a state of trepidation, submerges its repullulating head!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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