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Irrupted

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ir·rupt  (-rpt)
intr.v. ir·rupt·ed, ir·rupt·ing, ir·rupts
1. To break or burst in.
2. Ecology To increase rapidly and irregularly in number: In the absence of predators, the island's rodent population irrupted.
[Latin irrumpere, irrupt- : in-, in; see in-2 + rumpere, to break; see reup- in Indo-European roots.]
ir·ruption n.


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It was Voegelin's contention that into the vacuum of earthly meaning created by the Christian dedivinization of the world and its denial that human nature could find fulfillment through material desires irrupted various forms of Gnosticism, a somewhat deformed version of Christianity that seeks immanent salvation through human action in a redivinized world in which humanity is the locus of the divine.
Civil theology in the Gnostic age: progress and regress by Henry, Michael / Modern Age
Populations have irrupted in response to protective game laws, freedom from natural predators (wolves and mountain lions were mostly eliminated by early settlers because they preyed on livestock), and an abundance of favorable habitat (landscapes of intermingled young forest and agricultural fields that produce a plethora of deer food).
Whitetails are changing our woodlands by Chunko, Shelby E. / American Forests
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