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The Meaning of possess
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(v. t.) To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold.
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(v. t.) To have the legal title to; to have a just right to; to be master of; to own; to have; as, to possess property, an estate, a book.
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(v. t.) To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to seize.
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(v. t.) To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to fill; to affect; -- said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc.
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(v. t.) To put in possession; to make the owner or holder of property, power, knowledge, etc.; to acquaint; to inform; -- followed by of or with before the thing possessed, and now commonly used reflexively.
Synonyms
posse
,
posse comitatus
,
own
,
have
Rhymes
abs
,
abscess
,
abts
,
access
,
acquiesce
,
address
,
adss
,
aggress
,
assess
,
attests
,
bess
,
besse
,
bless
,
bress
,
bresse
,
caress
,
ccs
,
ches
,
chess
,
cmos
,
coalesce
,
compress
,
confess
,
contests
,
convalesce
,
cress
,
depress
,
digests
,
digress
,
dispossess
,
distress
,
dress
,
egress
,
ellesse
,
ess
,
esse
,
etess
,
excess
,
express
,
fess
,
finesse
,
fluoresce
,
fress
,
gess
,
gless
,
gress
,
guess
,
hces
,
headdress
,
hess
,
hesse
,
impress
,
ines
,
inverness
,
jess
,
kess
,
kless
,
kness
,
kress
,
kresse
,
kubes
,
largesse
,
lcs
,
les
,
less
,
letterpress
,
ls
,
mess
,
ness
,
nevertheless
,
noblesse
,
nonetheless
,
oas
,
obsess
,
oppress
,
outguess
,
overdress
,
pesce
,
pless
,
press
,
presse
,
process
,
profess
,
progress
,
protests
,
ques
,
reassess
,
recess
,
redress
,
refenes
,
regress
,
reinvests
,
repossess
,
repress
,
requests
,
ress
,
s
,
simplesse
,
stds
,
stress
,
success
,
suppress
,
tcas
,
tess
,
transgress
,
tress
,
ts
,
undress
,
unless
,
uss
,
vess
,
watercress
,
wes
,
wess
,
ws
,
yes