v. Obs. Also en-, impeople. [f. EN- + PEOPLE.]
1. trans. To fill with people, populate.
1582. N. Lichefield, trans. Lopes de Castanheda’s Hist. Disc. E. Indies, 140 b. He was desirous to encrease and enpeople his Citie.
1583. Stubbes, Anat. Abus., II. C vj. Before the world was impeopled.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., I. vi. 24. But we now know ’tis very well empeopled.
1631. Mabbe, Celestina, XVIII. 181. What does impeople Church-yards but it?
2. nonce-use. To establish as the population.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. x. 56. And gan enquere … what unknowen nation there empeopled were.
1775. in Ash.
1847. in Craig; and in mod. Dicts.
Hence Empeopled ppl. a.
1855. Singleton, Virgil, I. 164. Libya’s shepherds … And their empeopled kraals with scattered roofs.
