Part 412

A little time be allowed for the madness of popularity to cease.

Bancroft.

Pop`u*lar*i*za"tion (?), n. The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.

Pop"u*lar*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Popularized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Popularizing (?).] [Cf. F. populariser.] To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. "The popularizing of religious teaching." Milman.

Pop"u*lar*i`zer (?), n. One who popularizes.

Pop"u*lar*ly, adv. In a popular manner; so as to be generally favored or accepted by the people; commonly; currently; as, the story was popularity reported.

The victor knight, Bareheaded, popularly low had bowed.

Dryden.

Pop"u*lar*ness, n. The quality or state of being popular; popularity. Coleridge.

Pop"u*late (?), a. [L. populus people. See People.] Populous. [Obs.] Bacon.

Pop"u*late (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Populated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Populating.] To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.

Pop"u*late, v. i. To propagate. [Obs.]

Great shoals of people which go on to populate.

Bacon.

Pop`u*la"tion (?), n. [L. populatio: cf. F. population.] 1. The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

2. The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.

Pop"u*la`tor (?), n. One who populates.

Pop"u*li*cide` (?), n. [L. populus people + caedere to kill.] Slaughter of the people. [R.]

Pop"u*lin (?), n. [L. populus poplar: cf. F. populine.] (Chem.) A glycoside, related to salicin, found in the bark of certain species of the poplar (Populus), and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance.

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Pop`u*los"i*ty (?), n. [L. populositas: cf. F. populositÈ.] Populousness.[Obs.]

Pop"u*lous (?), a. [L. populosus, fr. populus people: cf. F. populeux.] 1. Abounding in people; full of inhabitants; containing many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country.

Heaven, yet populous, retains Number sufficient to possess her realms.

Milton.

2. Popular; famous. [Obs.] J. Webster.

3. Common; vulgar. [Obs.] Arden of Feversham.

4. Numerous; in large number. [Obs.] "The dust . . . raised by your populous troops." Shak.

-- Pop"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Pop"u*lous*ness, n.