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under-peopled, ppl. a.|-ˈpiːp(ə)ld, older ˈʌndə-|
(under-1 10 a.)
a1687Petty Pol. Arith. Pref. (1690) a 1 b, There is no Trade nor Employment for the People, and yet..the Land is under-peopled. 1707Arbuthnot Serm. on Union 8 This is the chief Cause why Scotland..is underpeopled. 1776Adam Smith W.N. i. ix. (1904) I. 102 A new colony must always, for some time, be..more underpeopled..than the greater part of other countries. 1834H. Martineau Moral i. 24 The question is not now, as it was when the country was underpeopled. 1862Q. Rev. Apr. 510 A valuable acquisition to any underpeopled colony. |