v. [f. as prec. + -ATE3.]

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  1.  trans. To convert into spores.

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1885.  Lankester, in Encycl. Brit., XIX. 854/1. A part of the protoplasm is not sporulated but forms a capillitium.

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  2.  intr. To form spores or sporales.

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1891.  in Cent. Dict.

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! 1897.  Nature, 21 Oct., 601/1. In a cell about to sporulate the nucleus is found in the centre of the cell.

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1898.  P. Manson, Trop. Diseases, i. 16. The non-flagellated plasmodium … sporulates in the human blood-corpuscle.

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  Hence Sporulated, Sporulating ppl. adjs.

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1897.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 749. The breaking up of the sporulating parasite.

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1898.  P. Manson, Trop. Diseases, iii. 79. The breaking down of the sporulated plasmodium.

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