† popuˈlosity Obs.
[f. L. populōs-us full of people, populous + -ity. So F. populosité (Cotgr. 1611).]
= populousness.
| 1614 Raleigh Hist. World i. (1634) 98 That the Easterne people were most ancient in populositie. 1720 Strype Stow's Surv. I. 305/2 For Hugeness, Concourse, Navigation, Trade and Populosity, it very hardly gives way to any City in Europe. 1778 W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric., Digest 3 In the present state of Populosity,..the spontaneous growth would be found far short of his indispensable exigencies. |