ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not populated; uninhabited; without people.
In some contexts perhaps influenced by UNPEOPLE v.
a. 1586. C’tess Pembroke, Ps. LXXVIII. xiv. He made them waste their weary yeares Roaming in vain in that unpeopled place.
1627. Speed, England, xlv. § 7. This Iland so small … and so vnpeopled and vnprofitable.
1667. Milton, P. L., III. 497. The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown Long after, now unpeopl’d, and untrod.
1737. Glover, Leonidas, IV. 638. What suff’rings to compensate … for unpeopled realms, And all this waste of nature?
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist., VII. 131. The crocodile … found in unpeopled countries.
1816. Wilson, City of Plague, III. i. 122. He loves the silence of an unpeopled reign.
1839. Carlyle, Chartism, iv. Ireland will be burnt into a black unpeopled field of ashes.
1887. Bowen, Æneid, VI. 269. The unpeopled realm of Death.
