ppl. a. (UNDER-1 10 a.)

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a. 1687.  Petty, Pol. Arith., Pref. (1690), a 1 b. There is no Trade nor Employment for the People, and yet … the Land is under-peopled.

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1707.  Arbuthnot, Serm. on Union, 8. This is the chief Cause why Scotland … is underpeopled.

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1776.  Adam Smith, W. N., I. ix. (1904), I. 102. A new colony must always, for some time, be more underpeopled … than the greater part of other countries.

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1834.  Ht. Martineau, Moral T., I. 2. The question is not now, as it was when the country was underpeopled.

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1862.  Q. Rev., April, 510. A valuable acquisition to any underpeopled colony.

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