Populares to Porpus
Populares
(||Pop`u*la"res) n. pl. [L.] The people or the people's party, in ancient Rome, as opposed to
the optimates.
Popularity
(Pop`u*lar"i*ty) n.; pl. Popularities [L. popularitas an effort to please the people: cf. F.
popularité.]
1. The quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being esteemed by, or of being in favor
with, the people at large; good will or favor proceeding from the people; as, the popularity of a law, statesman,
or a book.
A popularity which has lasted down to our time.
Macaulay. 2. The quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to common, poor, or vulgar people; hence, cheapness; inferiority; vulgarity.
This gallant laboring to avoid popularity falls into a habit of affectation.
B. Jonson. 3. Something which obtains, or is intended to obtain, the favor of the vulgar; claptrap.
Popularities, and circumstances which . . . sway the ordinary judgment.
Bacon. 4. The act of courting the favor of the people. [Obs.] "Indicted . . . for popularity and ambition." Holland.
5. Public sentiment; general passion. [R.]
A little time be allowed for the madness of popularity to cease.
Bancroft. Popularization
(Pop`u*lar*i*za"tion) n. The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.
Popularize
(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.
Popularizer
(Pop"u*lar*i`zer) n. One who popularizes.
Popularly
(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. Popularness
(Pop"u*lar*ness), n. The quality or state of being popular; popularity. Coleridge.
Populate
(Pop"u*late) a. [L. populus people. See People.] Populous. [Obs.] Bacon.
Populate
(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.
Populate
(Pop"u*late), v. i. To propagate. [Obs.]
Great shoals of people which go on to populate.
Bacon. Population
(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.
