Obs. rare. [f. prec.] trans. a. To furnish with a world of people; to people. Also intr. with it. b. To bring (a child) into the world.
1589. Warner, Alb. Eng., VI. xxxi. 140. Zamois, when Troy must perish, shall send downe her Floods a Fleete, And world it where our Father rulde…. But long time hence,… that World shall world an Ile.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, II. [I.] lix. 170. Like Lightening, it can strike the childe in the wombe, and kill it ere ’tis worlded.
