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repeople, v.|riːˈpiːp(ə)l|
[ad. F. repeupler (13th c.): see re- and people v.]
1. trans. To people anew; to furnish with a fresh population.
1481Caxton Myrr. iii. xii. 158 After this the world was repeoplyd and made agayn by them that descended of them. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 286, I will repeople the towne againe wyth mere Englishe men. 1652H. L'Estrange Amer. no Jewes 10 Noah had so many yeares of his own life to bestow in repeopling and replanting the Earth. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. I. ii. 52 He invited..foreigners to re⁓people his Country. 1873Geikie Ice Age i. 2 We behold..Britain once more becoming continental, and repeopled.
b. fig. To people again in imagination.
1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. iv, Though all were o'er, For us repeopled were the solitary shore. 1871Macduff Patmos v. 56 One can still re-people the solitude with busy life.
absol.1835Lytton Rienzi ii. iv, I had the power to re⁓people—to create.
2. transf. To restock with bees, fish, etc.
1693Addison Virg. Georg. iv. 297 By repeopling their decaying state,..Their ancient stocks eternally remain. 1766Complete Farmer s.v. Queen-bee, From the fœcundity of this one female, a whole hive is easily and soon repeopled. 1807J. Barlow Columb. viii. 484 Renascent swarms..Re⁓people still the shoals and fin the fruitful tide. 1862Cornhill Mag. Feb. 201 M. Coste has superintended the laying down of..new oyster beds.., and likewise repeopled a number that had been exhausted.
Hence reˈpeopling vbl. n.
1611Cotgr., Repeuplement, a repeopling, repopulating. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 125 Presently upon re-peopling of the earth [etc.]. 1798Malthus Popul. (1817) I. 466 He..forgets that such a prompt repeopling could not take place without an unusual increase of births. 1863Dana Man. Geol. 203 There was nearly a complete extermination of the species, requiring a repeopling of the seas. |