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Definition of Dispeoples
1. dispeople [v] - See also: dispeople
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispeoples
Literary usage of Dispeoples
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... feeds revenge, disposes to envy, creates witches, dispeoples the world, renders
it a desert, and would soon dissolve it. And, if after all this, ..."
2. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes : Authors by Samuel Austin Allibone (1896)
"Nor drain I ponds the golden carp to take, NOT troll for pikes, dispeoples of
the lake. GAY. In genial spring, beneath the quiv'ring shade, Where cooling ..."
3. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Sir Egerton Brydges (1805)
"The result of all is, solitude produces ignorance,. renders us barbarous, feeds
reverse, disposes to envy, creates witches, dispeoples the world, ..."
4. Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus by Claude Delaval Cobham (1908)
"Many of them notwithstanding settle in the seaport towns of Syria, which dispeoples
the island very much. Cyprus is now divided into sixteen ..."
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