depopulacy

English

Noun

depopulacy (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) depopulation
    • c. 1624, George Chapman, "Batrachomyomachia (The Battle of Frogs and Mice)".
      Mars answer'd : O Jove, neither she nor I, / With both our aids can keep depopulacy / From off the Frogs.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for depopulacy in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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