populouslyadv.

1563 R. Reynolds Foundacion of Rhetorike f. 35 Houses..were then..made, families multiplied, villages and Tounes populouslie increased.

1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 562 Jewes,..in such infinite numbers, that scarce no Towne nor Village, but is very populously replenished with their families.

1784 E. Allen Reason xi. §1. 363 That part of the country..has for a long succession of ages been populously inhabited.

1862 Times 6 Jan. 11/3 Three-fifths of the houses were not supplied from this source, but obtained their water from surface wells, which, sunken within a populously inhabited area.., could not but be regarded as generally objectionable.

1995 J. Windsor Lewis Stud. in Gen. & Eng. Phonetics p. xxi Yves Le Clézio, in investigating Shilluk, a little-known and not populously spoken Nilotic language of southern Sudan, needed to record many of his specimen words with accompanying English glosses.

2002 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 25 July c9 It helps having about 35 million people within three hours driving distance of the Games city in this nation that is as populously compact as Canada is vast and solitary.