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populate

populate is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.Populous. [Obs.] Bacon.
  2. 2.To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.
  3. 3.To propagate. [Obs.] Great shoals of people which go on to populate. Bacon.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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