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unˈpeopled, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
Not populated; uninhabited; without people.
In some contexts perhaps influenced by unpeople v.
a1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxviii. xiv, He made them waste their weary yeares Roaming in vain in that unpeopled place. 1627Speed England xlv. §7 This Iland so small..and so vnpeopled and vnprofitable. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 497 The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown Long after, now unpeopl'd, and untrod. 1737Glover Leonidas iv. 638 What suff'rings to compensate..for unpeopled realms, And all this waste of nature? 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. VII. 131 The crocodile..found in unpeopled countries. 1816Wilson City of Plague iii. i. 122 He loves the silence Of an unpeopled reign. 1839Carlyle Chartism iv, Ireland will be burnt into a black unpeopled field of ashes. 1887Bowen æneid vi. 269 The unpeopled realm of Death. |