empeople

English

Etymology

em- +‎ people

Verb

empeople (third-person singular simple present empeoples, present participle empeopling, simple past and past participle empeopled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To form into a people or community.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To fill with people; populate.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     We now know 't is very well empeopled.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “empeople”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)