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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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10 words match “PEOPLED”

PEOPLED a.
Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. "The peopled air." Gray.
UNDERPEOPLED a.
Not fully peopled.
BARBAROUS a.
Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
COMPARISON n.
son of, In comparison with, as compared with; in proportion to. [Archaic] "So miserably unpeopled in comparison of what it once was." Addison. -- Comparison of hands (Law), a mode of proving or disproving the genuineness of a signature or writing by comparing it with another proved or admitted to be genuine, in order…
DEPOPULATE v.
To become dispeopled. [R.] Whether the country be depopulating or not. Goldsmith.
DISPEOPLE v.
To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Leave the land dispeopled and desolate. Sir T. More. A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers. Milton.
EMPEOPLE v.
m into a people or community; to inhabit; to people. [Obs.] We now know 't is very well empeopled. Sir T. Browne.
PEOPLE v.
To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate. "Peopled heaven with angels." Dryden. As the gay motes that people the sunbeams. Milton .
RELIABLE a.
on's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much more reliable, being peopled in those agitated times by "unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very knavish Whigs." W. Irving.
SETTLEMENT n.
The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country.