empeople
English
Etymology
Verb
empeople (third-person singular simple present empeoples, present participle empeopling, simple past and past participle empeopled)
- (obsolete, transitive) To form into a people or community.
- (obsolete, transitive) To fill with people; to populate.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- We now know 't is very well empeopled.
References
- “empeople”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.