empeopled

English

Etymology

From empeople.

Adjective

empeopled (comparative more empeopled, superlative most empeopled)

(obsolete) Populated; established as a population.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  he wondred much, and gan enquere, / What stately building durst so high extend / Her loftie towres vnto the starry sphere, / And what vnknowen nation there empeopled were.

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