单词 | populating |
释义 | populatingn. The action of populate v.2 ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > [noun] peopling1611 populating1652 population1776 1652 H. L'Estrange Americans No Iewes 8 To the populating of America. 1690 J. Child Disc. Trade x. 167 Whatever tends to the populating of a Kingdom, tends to the emprovement of it. 1706 N. de Souligné Compar. Old Rome & London ii. 87 Now the Religion of the Romans, if we may call it so, was not so proper and advantageous for the populating of a great Town. 1771 W. Le Marchant Rights & Immunities Guernsey 37 Can we then be blamed, if we apply to get rescinded, regulations that..avowedly tend to the populating an extensive province of France, and to the rendering these islands abject and desolate? 1882 Times 17 Jan. 6/1 We have the populating of the island of Saghalien by convict settlements. 1968 E. L. Hewett Anc. Life in Mexico & Central Amer. ii. iv. 61 It is used because, as to the peopling of North America, it expresses the only theory that has any logic in it; the only one that brings the populating of North America from any outside source within the range of possibility. 1991 M. A. Powers Heroine in Western Lit. ii. iii. 42 Archaeological evidence suggests that the populating of Greece was not the gradual and rather pacific merger of homogeneous tribes as in Crete. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1652 |
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