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1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde iii. xii. 158 After this the world was repeoplyd and made agayn by them that descended of them.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 286 I will repeople the towne againe wyth mere Englishe men.

1652 H. L'Estrange Americans No Iewes 10 Noah had so many yeares of his own life to bestow in repeopling and replanting the Earth.

1693 E. Bohun Char. Queen Elizabeth 58 She repeopled the almost-desolate City of Norwich.

1720 A. Hill Gideon 79 The World was first repeopled, after the Deluge, from the Tracts about Ararat.

1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. I. ii. 52 He invited..foreigners to re~people his Country.

1849 Southern Literary Messenger Mar. 186/1 Under the rule of Cavaignac, the usual street amusements and club scenes were severely restricted and the theatres began to be repeopled.

1874 J. Geikie Great Ice Age i. 3 We behold..Britain once more becoming continental, and repeopled.

1964 Life 25 Dec. 22/1 Noah's descendants repeopled the earth with tribes whose enumeration..gives a surprisingly accurate picture of the ancient world.

2006 C. Finkel Osman's Dream (ed. 2) iii. 56 Mehmed set about repeopling Constantinople.

1639 G. Rivers Heroinæ 117 The Iland was an heape of carkasses in despaire of being repeopled but by Cannibals or Crows.

1693 J. Addison Ess. Virgil's Georgics iv. 297 By repeopling their decaying state,..Their ancient stocks eternally remain.

1766 Compl. Farmer at Queen-bee From the fœcundity of this one female, a whole hive is easily and soon repeopled.

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad viii. 305 Renascent swarms..Repeople still the shoals and fin the fruitful tide.

1862 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 201 M. Coste has superintended the laying down of..new oyster beds.., and likewise repeopled a number that had been exhausted.

1908 Times 5 Dec. 4/4 A few gale-driven seagulls have already repeopled, as if by ancestral instinct, the shores.

1967 C. J. Glacken Traces on Rhodian Shore ii. vii. 328 In the French forest ordinance of 1376, the purpose of baliveau is clearly to ‘repeople’ the forest.

1793 W. Andrews Poet. Wks. I. 65 Illusion now repeoples all the Void.

1816 Ld. Byron Jrnl. 19 Sept. in Byron: Self-portrait (1950) I. 350 I have lately repeopled my mind with nature.

1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV iv. 5 Though all were o'er, For us repeopled were the solitary shore.

1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. ii. iv. 249 I had the power to repeople—to create.

1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos v. 56 One can still re-people the solitude with busy life.

1883 Harper's Mag. Feb. 366/2 We recalled and repeopled that ‘Snow-Bound’ evening of so long ago.

1915 S. Phillips Panama 71 To-night what ghosts revisit Drury Lane? What shades re-people this familiar fane?

1993 P. Matarasso Cistercian World Introd. p. xi It is not too hard, when wandering among the blanched and fretted remains, to rebuild and even to repeople in the mind's eye the abbeys in their later splendour.

1608 E. Grimeston in tr. J. F. Le Petit Gen. Hist. Netherlands xvi. 1317 For the repeopling of this towne, he graunted goodly priuiledges.

1708 W. Saunders Ess. establishing Fishery 21 An equal Benefit, which will be in some measure a repeopling of us, too, by adding so many lost Hands to the Service of the Public.

1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) ii. vii. 269 He..forgets that such a prompt repeopling could not take place without an unusual increase of births.

1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 203 There was nearly a complete extermination of the species, requiring a repeopling of the seas.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 849 What with births and immigrations, spring is a season of re-peopling both in the waters and on land.

2004 Modesto (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 28 Oct. 22 The Gold Rush provided the first boost toward a farm future and the repeopling of the valley.