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Populate  v. t.  (past & past part. populated; pres. part. populating)  To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.






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"Populate" Quotes from Famous Books



... I confess that it amazes me, for it is a very hazardous enterprise. But all the same one must admit that our Nicolas is a very plucky fellow, and one can't help admiring his great energy and faith in thus setting out for an almost unknown region, fully convinced that he will subject and populate it." ...
— Fruitfulness - Fecondite • Emile Zola

... for they are "patriots," which means that the fall of the birth-rate in all other countries but their own is a source of much gratification. "Woe to us," they exclaim in effect, "if we follow the example of these wicked and degenerate peoples! Our nation needs men. We have to populate the earth and to carry the blessings of our civilised culture all over the world. In executing that high mission we cannot have too much cannon-fodder in defending ourselves against the jealousy and aggression of other nations. Let us promote parentage by law; let us repress ...
— Essays in War-Time - Further Studies In The Task Of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis

... I look abroad upon the world, and see men shaving their heads, and wearing nasty hair shirts, and shutting themselves up in cells, and living lives of celibacy, and when I see women retiring from the world which they were sent to adorn, populate, and bless, and Shakers driving around in square wagons and studiously ugly garments, and Christians who should know better abandoning all the bright and cheerful things of life, and feeling that there is merit in mortification, I cannot but feel that God looks down upon it all with sadness and ...
— Lessons in Life - A Series of Familiar Essays • Timothy Titcomb

... Maine, for example, were to be found in Massachusetts; 17,000 were in California; and considerable numbers in every state between the two. The North Carolinians were equally well distributed. 43,000 were in South Carolina, 18,000 in Texas, and 5,500 in Washington. Every state had contributed to populate every other, although in general the migration tended to take place on east and west ...
— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley



Words linked to "Populate" :   neighbor, make full, inhabit, domicile, lodge in, fill up, cohabit, encamp, live, room, tent, board, tenant, population, domiciliate, live together, shack up, nest, neighbour



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