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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

populus

people. See

Populous.

[Obs.]

Bacon.

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Populated

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Populating

To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.

Verb.

To propagate.

[Obs.]

Great shoals of people which go on to

populate

Bacon.

Verb.

[L. populus.] To breed people; to propagate.

When there be great shoals of people which go on to populate.

Verb.

To people; to furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase, or by immigration or colonization.