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Webster 1913 Edition

Populous

Pop′u-lous

,
Adj.
[L.
populosus
, fr.
populus
people: cf. F.
populeux
.]
1.
Abounding in people; full of inhabitants; containing many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country.
Heaven, yet
populous
, retains
Number sufficient to possess her realms.
Milton.
2.
Popular; famous.
[Obs.]
J. Webster.
3.
Common; vulgar.
[Obs.]
Arden of Feversham.
4.
Numerous; in large number.
[Obs.]
“The dust . . . raised by your populous troops.”
Shak.
–
Pop′u-lous-ly
,
adv.
–
Pop′u-lous-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition

Populous

POP'ULOUS

,
Adj.
[L. populosus.] Full of inhabitants; containing many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country. A territory containing fifteen or twenty inhabitants to a square mile is not a populous country. The Netherlands, and some parts of Italy, containing a hundred and fifty inhabitants to a square mile, are deemed populous.

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