popularity (popular it i)

[F. popularite = Sp. popular i dad = Pg. popularidade = It. popolarità = D. populariteit = Sw. Dan. popu II. in trans . To breed; propagate; increase in number. Great shoals of people which go on to populate . Bacon, Vici itudes of Things. populate (pop'ū-lāt), a. [= It. popolato, popu lato; ited and populate. Guevara , Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 376. A prince in the prime of his years, owner of the entire isle of Britain, enjoying Ireland populate and quiet. Bacon , Notes of a Speech on Spain. population (pop-u-la's hon), n. [F. popula tion = Sp. populacion, poblacion = Pg. popula ção = It. popolazione, rapid population of the country still continues. The first radical impact of the principle of population, working in harmony with the repellent forces of savagery, tends to the speediest po ible diffusion of population throughout the most acce ible parts of the habitable world. Amer. Anthropologist, I. 17. 2. The whole number of people or inhabitants in a country, county, city, or other locality: as, the population has increased 20,000 in four years; also, a part of the inhabitants in any way distinguished from the rest: as, the German population of New York. A country may have a great population and yet not be populous. Tooke . In countries of the highest civilization which has yet been reached, armed with the resources of the best government, purest justice, truest morality, soundest econ IMG:content-0657.png:[blocks in formation] 3. The state of a locality with regard to the number of its inhabitants; populousne . Neither is the population to be reckoned only by number, for a smaller number, that spend more and earn le , do wear out an estate sooner than a greater number that live low and gather more. Bacon , Seditions and Troubles. populator (pop'ū-lā-tor), n. [= It. popolatore , populator , one who peoples, populare , pp . populatus : see people and populate .] One who or that which populates or peoples. populicide (pop'ū-li-sid), n. [=F. populicide ; populus , people, + cædere , kill.] Slaughter of the people. Eclectic Rev. [Rare.] populin (pop'ū-lin), n . [ = F. populine ; populus , poplar, + -in2 .] A crystallizable substance (C20H22O8) found in the bark, root, and leaves of the aspen, Populus Tremula , along with salicin. It forms delicate white needles, which have a sweet taste like that of licorice. populinate (pop'ū-lin-at), v . t . [ populin + -ate2 .] To impregnate with populin, as lard, to prevent a tendency to rancidity. U. S. Dis pensatory , p. 1489. Populist (pop'ū-list), a. and n. I. a. Of or pertaining to the People's party, a political organization established in the United States in 1892, having for its chief objects expansion of the cur rency, state control of railways, and the placing of restrictions upon the ownership of land. II. n. A member of the People's party.