POPULATE

a. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Populous. [Obs.] Bacon.

2.
v.

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

3.
v.

To propagate. [Obs.] Great shoals of people which go on to populate. Bacon.