empeople

E1M3P3E1O1P3L1E1

verb

To form into a people or community.

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Meanings

verbempeople (third-person singular simple present empeoples, present participle empeopling, simple past and past participle empeopled)

present singular third person empeoples · participle present empeopling · participle past empeopled · past empeopled

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo form into a people or community.
  2. obsoletetransitiveTo fill with people; to populate.

    We now know 't is very well empeopled.

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin

From em- + people.

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Chicago

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