Citations:colonise

Verb (transitive): settle with a group

 * 1884, Frederick Sanders Pulling and Sidney J. Low, The Dictionary of English History, Cassell & Company; pages 1022–1023:
 * In 1608 a commission was appointed to consider what should be done with these large estates, and proposed to colonise the whole district with “ retired civil and military servants,” and with colonists from England and Scotland.