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Webster 1913 Edition
Populate
Pop′u-late
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Populated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Populating
.] To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.
Pop′u-late
,Verb.
I.
To propagate.
[Obs.]
Great shoals of people which go on to
populate
. Bacon.
Webster 1828 Edition
Populate
POP'ULATE
,Verb.
I.
When there be great shoals of people which go on to populate.
POP'ULATE
,Verb.
T.