† popiladj.
Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
Inhabited by ordinary people.
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landish1489
popil1531
popular1533
secular1589
plebeial1590
plebeian1602
vulgar1605
plebal1606
multitudinousa1616
gregarian1632
gregary1640
populous1657
roturière1791
demotic1831
vulgarian1833
demic1834
commonal1865
communal1878
folkish1938
plebby1962
pleb1972
1531 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hist. & Chron. Scotl. (Morgan) i. 166 To Forfair quhair sum tyme was ane strang castell..quhair sindry kingis of Scottis maid residence..thocht it be now ane popill [c1540 popil] tovn [L. nunc in vicum redactum].
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adj.1531- free labourer
- free lance
- free lances
- free library
- free liking
- free line
- free list
- free loaning
- free love
- free lunch
- free market
- free marketeer
- free marketer
- free marriage
- free moisture
- free movement
- free of
- free on board
- free on rail
- free or common socage
- free or free socage
- free paper
- free parachute
- free pardon
- free part