impeople

English

Verb

impeople (third-person singular simple present impeoples, present participle impeopling, simple past and past participle impeopled)

1. Obsolete form of empeople.
   • 1648, Joseph Beaumont, “Canto XVI. The Antidote.”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, […], London: […] George Boddington, […], published 1651, →OCLC, stanza 19, page 299, column 1:

     They eaſieſt may be Bad, nor canſt thou tell / But thou haſt helped to impeople Hell.

References

• “impeople”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.