Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Populate

Populate , adjective

[Latin populus people. See People.]

Populous. [Obsolete] — Bacon

Populate , transitive verb

To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.

Populate , intransitive verb

To propagate. [Obsolete]
Great shoals of people which go on to populate. — Bacon