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单词 dispeople
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dispeoplev.

/dɪsˈpiːp(ə)l/
Etymology: < Old French despeupler, modern French dépeupler (1364 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter) = Spanish despoblar , Provençal despovoar , Italian dis- , dipopolare , Romanic formation < des- , Latin dis- , dis- prefix 1d + populus people, parallel to Latin dēpopulāre (used in medieval Latin in same sense): compare depopulate adj. In sense 3 < dis- prefix 2b(b) + people n.
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.
absolute.1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 367 Without pittie pyllaging and dispeopling by sea and shore.1859 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 352 Their only ambition is to dispeople and destroy.
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.
2. To exterminate (people). Obsolete.
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.
3. [dis- prefix 2b(b).] To cast out or cut off from being a people. Obsolete.
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).
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