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impeople

impeople is the obsolete form of empeople.

Meaning of empeople

Verb

empeople (third-person singular simple present empeoples, present participle empeopling, simple past and past participle empeopled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To form into a people or community.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To fill with people; to populate.
    • We now know 't is very well empeopled.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Forms of impeople

third-person singular presentimpeoples
present participleimpeopling
past participleimpeopled
pastimpeopled

Questions about impeople

What is impeople the obsolete form of?
Impeople is the obsolete form of empeople.

Words near impeople in the dictionary

  1. impenned
  2. impenning
  3. impennous
  4. impens
  5. impentamine
  6. impeople
  7. impeopled
  8. impeoples
  9. impeopling
  10. imper.
  11. imperance

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