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Definition of Overpeopling
1. overpeople [v] - See also: overpeople
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overpeopling
Literary usage of Overpeopling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British History in the Nineteenth Century (1782-1901) by George Macaulay Trevelyan (1922)
"The sudden overpeopling of Great Britain deplored by Malthus, and the sorry plight
of the English peasantry at home, caused in these years the great rural ..."
2. Herodotus by Herodotus, William Beloe (1830)
"... nothing more dangerous than the overpeopling any manufacture, or multiplying
the traders and dealers of whatever vocation, beyond their natural ..."
3. The Cultivator: A Monthly Publication, Devoted to Agriculture by New York State Agricultural Society (1852)
"... at this overpeopling with rank potatoes. Some weakness of the plants; some
atmospheric cause dissolves the vital power, which holds the chemical ..."
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