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pullulate
verb
to breed, produce, or create rapidly.
More about pullulate
The English verb pullulate derives from the Latin verb 辫耻濒濒耻濒腻谤别 鈥渢o sprout, put forth shoots, bring forth,鈥� a derivative of the noun pullus 鈥測oung animal, foal.鈥� The Latin words derive from the Proto-Indo-European root pau-, 辫艒耻-, 辫奴- (with various suffixes) 鈥渓ittle, small, few.鈥� The suffixed forms pau-o- and pau-ko form Germanic (English) few and Latin paucus 鈥渟mall, slight,鈥� respectively (the Latin adjective is also the source of Spanish and Italian poco). The suffixed form 辫艒-濒辞蝉 yields Greek 辫么濒辞蝉 鈥渇oal, young girl, young boy,鈥� and Germanic (English) foal. The suffixed form pu-er- forms Latin puer 鈥渂oy鈥� and puella 鈥済irl鈥� (from assumed puerla). Pullulate entered English in the early 17th century.
how is pullulate used?
Abundant foodstuffs, a benign climate, lack of natural enemies, high reproductive rate, minimal shooting pressure, and adequate habitat had all combined to allow the birds to pullulate wildly out of control–in fact to reach pestilential proportions.
It is evident, for anyone with eyes to see, that for half a century, animals and people alike have tended to multiply, to proliferate, to pullulate in a truly disquieting proportion.
More about dornick
Dornick is an Americanism dating back to 1830鈥�40 from Irish 诲辞谤苍贸驳 鈥渟mall stone, handful,鈥� from dorn 鈥渇颈蝉迟.鈥�
how is dornick used?
Indulging a few moments’ contemplation of its freckled rind, I broke it open with a stone, a rock, a dornick, in boy’s language.
The rock throwers must have been cads or they wouldn’t have flung a dornick at that small bundle of pink-and-white loveliness …
polemology
noun
the analysis of human conflict and war, particularly international war.
More about polemology
Polemology was first recorded in 1935鈥�40. It comes from Greek 辫贸濒别尘辞蝉 鈥渨ar鈥� and -logy, a combining form used in the names of bodies of knowledge.
how is polemology used?
Closely related to the surge of interest in aggressive human behavior is the rise of a new science: polemology.
For the study of Greek warfare, or the polemology of ancient Greece, cannot be separated from the project of a general, very broadly political history of ancient Greek civic mentality, social structure and economic organization.