| 释义 |
peopler|ˈpiːplə(r)|
[f. people v. + -er1.]
One who peoples or causes the peopling of a country; a colonizer; an inhabitant.
1604E. G[rimstone] tr. D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iii. ix. 149, I have knowne..the Gennerall Jerome Costilla, the auntient peopler of Cusco. Ibid. vii. ii. 498 The second peoplers..came from other farre countries. 1692O. Walker Grk. & Rom. Hist. 63 note, Cham, the Son of Noah, and Peopler of Africa. 1841Lane Arab. Nts. III. 137 Where are the kings and the peoplers of the earth? 1872Blackie Lays Highl. 96 Peoplers of the peaceful glen.
fig.1821Examiner 627/1 Greek mythology is the religion of our poetry, the peopler of our starry spheres. |