empeopled

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From empeople.

Adjective[edit]

empeopled (comparative more empeopled, superlative most empeopled)

  1. (obsolete) Populated; established as a population.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      he wondred much, and gan enquere, / What stately building durst so high extend / Her loftie towres vnto the starry sphere, / And what vnknowen nation there empeopled were.
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