ppl. a. Full of inhabitants; populous.

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1588.  [see PEOPLED b].

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1628.  R. B[eling], Sixth Bk. Sidney’s Arcadia (1629), 504. The desolation of their wel-peopied country.

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1718.  Lady M. W. Montagu, Lett. to Abbé Conti, 31 July. The Isle … is but ten miles in circuit, but in those days very rich and well-peopled.

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1817.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., xx. II. 196. A well-peopled hive.

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c. 1850.  Arab. Nts. (Rtldg.), 279. Large, flourishing, and well-peopled towns.

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