单词 | dispeople |
释义 | dispeoplev. 1. a. transitive. To deprive wholly or partially of people or inhabitants; = depopulate v. 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > population > make less populous [verb (transitive)] desolate1382 dispeople1490 disinhabit1530 unpeoplea1533 unpeoplea1533 depopulate1595 unfurnish1603 unpopulate1658 unstock1865 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xviii. 69 My cytee shalle be dispeopled. 1562 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Æneid viii. X ij b And voyde of tilmen wide dispeoplyng spoyle the shyres. 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xiii. 92 Some cruell Lord..could..dispeople a whole parish, and send many soules a gooding. 1709 tr. J. F. Baltus Answer Hist. Oracles 114 Cities [were seen] to dispeople themselves every Year—to obey these Impostors. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiii. xi. 250 They thought it but compliance with the Divine command to dispeople the lands of the Philistines, the Edomites, and the Moabites. b. transferred and figurative. To deprive of animated inhabitants, tenants, or constituents. ΚΠ 1632 T. Randolph Jealous Lovers ii. ii. 20 We will dispeople all the elements To please our palates. 1713 A. Pope Windsor-Forest 3 And Kings..Who claim'd the Skies, dispeopled Air and Floods. 1777 Gamblers 8 The groaning wood dispeopled of its trees. 1890 Daily News 29 Sept. 4/8 The whole [fish] breed is ruined, and the water dispeopled. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [verb (transitive)] to bathe in bloodc1300 murderc1325 to make larder ofa1330 spend1481 to lick upa1500 slaught1535 butcher1562 wipe1577 slaughter1586 massacre1588 dispeople1596 shamble1601 depeople?1611 mow1615 internecate1623 dislaughter1661 mop1899 pogrom1915 decimate1944 overkill1946 1596 J. Norden Progr. Pietie f. 38v To cut vs off, and to dispeople vs. 1643 Oath Pacif. 10 Ireland hath seene more than two hundred thousand Families of Brittish Protestants dispeopled and massacred. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > exclude from society [verb (transitive)] > cast out or cut off from being a people dispeople1633 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island vi. vii. 66 When no rebellious crimes That God-like nation yet dispeop'led. 1643 J. Burroughes Expos. Hosea (1652) 67 The people of God..when they are dispeopled they are cast off from this their privilege. 1687 Reason of Toleration 17 Traps and Snares to dis-People the Nation. Derivatives disˈpeopled adj. deprived of people or inhabitants, depopulated, uninhabited. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [adjective] > not unbiggedc1175 desert1297 void1338 desolatec1374 unhabited1490 inhabitable?1529 disinhabit1530 depopulate1531 uninhabita1540 unpeopled1547 undwelta1557 uninhabited1571 dishabited1577 dispeopled1577 unhabit1580 disinhabited1600 desertful1601 unmanned1609 inhabited1614 peopleless1621 deserted1629 depopulated1632 unhabitated1648 unseated1662 desolated1693 unpopulous1715 unsettled1724 unpopulated1776 bandless1862 populationless1885 unlived-in1927 1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes ii. f. 41 Any desarte, or dispeopled Countrey. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 491/2 The King was left very dispeopled. 1740 C. Pitt tr. Virgil Æneid I. v. 193 Endless crowds..From all the wide dispeopled Country round. 1844 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VIII. lxii. 187 The dispeopled city was placed..at the disposal of Argos. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1490 |
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