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Definition of Dispeople
1. v. t. To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate.
Definition of Dispeople
1. Verb. (transitive) To empty of people or inhabitants. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dispeople
1. [v -PLED, -PLING, -PLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispeople
Literary usage of Dispeople
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Classical Tour Through Italy, An. MDCCCII. by John Chetwode Eustace (1821)
"... but this we may' affirm, that if it should extend to many years, it will half
dispeople Rome, open its deserted palaces and temples to the rains and the ..."
2. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"-\To dispeople. To depopulate. Let the two and thirty sonnes Of Eolus break forth
at once, to plow The ocean, and dispeople all the woods. ..."
3. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay by Asiatic Society of Bombay (1862)
"This cannot be alleged. Why then do we not equally reason from the igneous
mountains and alluvial plains of the moon ? To dispeople the moon is, ..."
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