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peopled, ppl. a.|ˈpiːp(ə)ld|
[f. prec. vb. + -ed1.]
Occupied by people; full of inhabitants; inhabited. Also fig.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xliv. (Percy Soc.) 217 Octavyan..Throughe the worlde and the peopled preace Letters had sent. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. v. iv. 3 This shadowy desart..I better brooke then flourishing peopled Townes. 1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 5 The first peopled land that he had found since his departure from his owne dwelling. 1686Dryden Elegy Mrs. A. Killigrew 126 When the peopled ark the whole creation bore. 1712Addison Spect. No. 519 ⁋ 2 Every part of Matter is peopled: Every green Leaf swarms with Inhabitants. 1844Stanley Arnold (1858) I. vii. 324 To present to one's mind a peopled landscape.
b. with advbs.
1588Parke tr. Mendoza's Hist. China 200 The suburbes..was so well peopled. 1604E. G[rimstone] tr. D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iii. xix. 178 At this day we see it lesse peopled. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 191 England, the best-peopled part of the united kingdom. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. III. 173 Cremona..a large city not half peopled. 1859Jephson Brittany xv. 251 The country..was hilly..and thickly peopled. |