1662 Duchess of Newcastle Wits Cabal i. i. v, in Playes Written 251 Populated Kingdomes are strongest, both for their own defence, and against Foreign Enemies.

1703 J. Shirley tr. J. Fernández Honour of Chivalry I. xxiii. 107 I profess nothing that better agrees with my conditions, than to wander solitary and unknown places, shunning the habitation of populated Cities and Towns.

1764 R. Wallace View Internal Policy Great Brit. ii. i. 199 Nor can the republican principles drawn from the policies of single cities, be applyed to a constitution composed of many great cities, themselves Republicks invested with great power, besides a vast extent of populated country.

1815 J. Pickering in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 3 ii. 507 Populated; peopled. ‘A thinly populated country.’ Very rarely used in America.

1884 W. Black Judith Shakespeare xvi A populated place filled with a..number of his fellow-creatures.

1944 G. E. Mitchell in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder vi. 248/1 Rivers and streams passing through populated districts must be regarded as dangerous.

1997 Daily Tel. 7 Aug. 5/1 The Environment Agency issued a series of flood warnings..indicating a danger of flooding to populated areas.

1747 Gentleman's Mag. May 242/2 Nor pines it [sc. the rose] languid to the Sirian blaze, With flaccid leaves, and populated breath.