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populousadj. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin populōsus. Etymology: < classical Latin populōsus full of people (2nd cent. a.d. in Apuleius) < populus people n. + -ōsus -ous suffix. Compare Middle French, French populeux (of a woman) fecund, having many children (1394 in an apparently isolated attestation as populuse (feminine singular)), full of people (1491; in Middle French also as populouse (feminine singular, end of the 15th cent.), populos (1500)), of the general public (c1590 in Middle French in an apparently isolated attestation, subsequently from the early 19th cent.), Spanish populoso (1490), Italian populoso (a1396).The β forms show alterations after people n. (compare forms at that entry). 1. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > population > [adjective] > populous c1425 (1923) 34 (MED) With..helpynge of the nygh parties of the populous Cyte, they were holpyn. J. Metham (1916) 29 (MED) This cuntre was gret and populus. a1538 T. Starkey (1989) 50 The cuntrey hath byn more populos then hyt ys now. c1550 (1979) i. 16 The maist pepulus toune abufe the eird. 1613 S. Purchas 477 The whole space betweene is as a continuall populous Market. 1663 S. Fortrey 2 France we know to be a nation, rich, populous and plentiful. 1709 D. Manley (ed. 2) II. 2 How populous of Mortals must be the Court of Pluto! how solitary that of Jupiter's? 1746 N. Owen Jrnl. in E. Martin (1930) 23 The city..is well built and peoplus, inhabited by Quakers chiefly. 1758 I. Fletcher 15 Aug. (1994) 51 A large popelous town & abundance of business done here in manufactury way. 1809 N. Pinkney 236 It has..an animation, an air of cleanness and rurality which seldom belong to a populous city. 1880 S. Haughton iv. 190 The rivers on the west coast..running through more populous districts. 1951 ‘J. Wyndham’ iv. 68 Hunger was driving more people out of their homes... The parts I..entered were more populous. 1996 9 Feb. 12/1 Liverpool, the most populous northern diocese of the Roman Catholic Church. 1654 R. Whitlock 321 As habitable a Part of the Microcosme or little World as any, for abilities or vertues, though not so Populous. 1700 R. Blackmore CIVth Psalm Paraphras'd in 228 So populous these watry Regions are, That Nations numberless inhabit there. Mute Nations that are here supply'd with Food, Whose Finny Wings divide the crystal Flood. a1771 C. Smart (1791) 90 Behold, Where yon pellucid populous hive presents A yet uncopied model to the world! 1836 W. Irving II. 175 The river,..with many populous communities of the beaver along its banks. 1889 W. Allingham 87 Swinging through the populous air, Dipping, every bird, in play, To kiss its flying image there. 1903 ‘T. Collins’ iii. 102 I had become conscious of standing on a populous ant-bed. 2003 (Nexis) 16 Mar. 3 b Changes in the dynamics of the Rio Grande, and the less populous community of favorable trees for the willow flycatcher, put its status in the Southwest in danger. the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [adjective] ?1789 E. Gibbon 28 Mar. (1956) III. 144 The autumn was remarkably populous in such Englishmen as I am not ashamed to acknowledge in foreign countries. 1820 W. Hazlitt 12 There is no time more populous of intellect,..than the one we are speaking of. the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > abundant, numerous > of individuals, people 1548 f. xliij Furnished wt a populous army. a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece (1858) III. 157 And tuke thame baith,..With his power quhilk wes richt populos. 1621 P. Heylyn 225 The ouerthrow of the populous Nauie of Xerxes. 1662 H. Hibbert 276 A populous posterity is the blessing of God. 1701 J. Dennis ii. ii. 204 Four Champions fierce, Strive here for Mastery, and to Battel bring Their Embryon Atoms, they around the Flag, Of each his faction in their several Clans, Light arm'd or heavy, sharp, smooth, swift or slow, Swarm populous, unnumber'd as the Sands Of Barca. a1771 C. Smart (1791) 91 Still with ten thousand beauties blooms the Earth With pleasures populous, and with riches crown'd. 1858 H. Ward Beecher xxiii. 267 I have no vicarious mission for these populous insects... Yet, how may I spare them? At every step I must needs crush scores. 1873 A. Anderson 36 The populous birds from out their leafy bound Made music everywhere. 1955 26 Mar. 196/3 Mormon crickets, on the other hand, will be less populous this year. 2002 G. M. Eberhart II. 639/2 Genetic studies in 2000 determined that a group of sage grouse in southwestern Colorado actually represented a different species from the more populous Greater sage grouse. society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [adjective] 1657 T. Aylesbury vi. 102 Mine Author avoucheth it rather for a populous rumor. 1703 S. F. Egerton 16 Now the Plague is grown so populous, 'Tis hard to stop the universal Curse. 1721 N. Amhurst (1726) xxxv. 190 A populous scandal was invented and reported about town. 1750 D. Garrick 22 June (1963) I. 147 It is a good populous title, and if there was any merit, would do something. 1830 I. D'Israeli III. ix. 200 The courtly flattery and the populous shout died away together. 1851 E. B. Browning ii. iii. 86 Between those populous rough hands Raised in the sun, Duke Leopold outleant, And took the patriot's oath. 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