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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Possess \Pos*sess"\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Possessed;
p. pr. & vb. n. Possessing.] [L. possessus, p. p. of
possidere to have, possess, from an inseparable prep. (cf.
Position) + sedere to sit. See Sit.]
1. To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own
keeping; to have and to hold.
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Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed
again in this land. --Jer. xxxii.
15.
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Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power,
After offense returning, to regain
Love once possessed. --Milton.
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2. 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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I am yours, and all that I possess. --Shak.
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3. To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to
gain; to seize.
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How . . . to possess the purpose they desired.
--Spenser.
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4. To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to
fill; to affect; -- said especially of evil spirits,
passions, etc. ``Weakness possesseth me.'' --Shak.
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Those which were possessed with devils. --Matt. iv.
24.
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For ten inspired, ten thousand are possessed.
--Roscommon.
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5. 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.
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I have possessed your grace of what I purpose.
--Shak.
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Record a gift . . . of all he dies possessed
Unto his son. --Shak.
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We possessed our selves of the kingdom of Naples.
--Addison.
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To possess our minds with an habitual good
intention. --Addison.
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Syn: To have; hold; occupy; control; own.
Usage: Possess, Have. Have is the more general word. To
possess denotes to have as a property. It usually
implies more permanence or definiteness of control or
ownership than is involved in having. A man does not
possess his wife and children: they are (so to speak)
part of himself. For the same reason, we have the
faculties of reason, understanding, will, sound
judgment, etc.: they are exercises of the mind, not
possessions.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Possess \Pos*sess"\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Possessed;
p. pr. & vb. n. Possessing.] [L. possessus, p. p. of
possidere to have, possess, from an inseparable prep. (cf.
Position) + sedere to sit. See Sit.]
1. To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own
keeping; to have and to hold.
Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed
again in this land. --Jer. xxxii.
15.
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power,
After offense returning, to regain Love once
possessed. --Milton.
2. 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.
I am yours, and all that I possess. --Shak.
3. To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to
gain; to seize.
How . . . to possess the purpose they desired.
--Spenser.
4. To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to
fill; to affect; -- said especially of evil spirits,
passions, etc. ``Weakness possesseth me.'' --Shak.
Those which were possessed with devils. --Matt. iv.
24.
For ten inspired, ten thousand are possessed.
--Roscommon.
5. 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.
I have possessed your grace of what I purpose.
--Shak.
Record a gift . . . of all he dies possessed Unto
his son. --Shak.
We possessed our selves of the kingdom of Naples.
--Addison.
To possess our minds with an habitual good
intention. --Addison.
Syn: To have; hold; occupy; control; own.
Usage: Possess, Have. Have is the more general word. To
possess denotes to have as a property. It usually
implies more permanence or definiteness of control or
ownership than is involved in having. A man does not
possess his wife and children: they are (so to speak)
part of himself. For the same reason, we have the
faculties of reason, understanding, will, sound
judgment, etc.: they are exercises of the mind, not
possessions.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
possess
v 1: have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill; "he possesses
great knowledge about the Middle East"
2: have ownership or possession of; "He owns three houses in
Florida"; "How many cars does she have?" [syn: own, have]
3: enter into and control, as of emotions or ideas; "What
possessed you to buy this house?"; "A terrible rage
possessed her"
From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
possess
Αγγλικά vb.
κατέχω, έχω, διαθέτω
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
possess
vb.
1 (lb en transitive)
2 # To have#Verb (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to
own#Verb.
3 # Of an idea, thought#Noun, etc.: to dominate (someone's
mind#Noun); to strongly influence#Verb.
4 # Of a supernatural entity, especially one regard#Verb as
evil#Adjective: to take control of (an animal or person's body or mind).
5 # (lb en also reflexive chiefly literary and poetic) Of a person:
to control#Verb or dominate (oneself or someone, or one's own or
someone's heart#Noun, mind, etc.).
6 ## To dominate (a person) sexually; to have sexual intercourse with
(a person).
7 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It act=IV scene=i page=201 column=2
passage=Now tell me how long you would haue her, after you haue
'''poſſeſt''' her?)
8 ##* (RQ:Joyce Ulysses page=472 passage=She leads him towards the
steps, drawing him by the odour of her armpits, the vice of her painted
eyes, the rustle of her slip in whose sinuous folds lurks the lion reek
of all the male brutes that have '''possessed''' her.)
9 # (lb en archaic)
10 ## To cause#Verb an idea, thought, etc., to strongly affect#Verb
or influence (someone); to inspire, to preoccupy.
11 ##: (ux en What on earth '''possessed''' you to go walking by the
quarry at midnight?)
12 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona act=III scene=i
page=30 column=1 passage=My eares are ſtopt, & cannot hear good
newes, / So much of bad already hath '''poſſeſt''' them.)
13 ##* (RQ:Bacon Learning book=2 page=91 passage=Heare is obſerued
that in all cauſes the firſt tale '''poſſeſſeth''' much, in ſorte, that
the preiudice, thereby wrought wil bee hardly remooued, excepte ſome
abuſe or falſitie in the Information be detected.)
14 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Tempest act=II scene=i page=8 column=1
passage=What a ſtrange drowſines '''poſſeſſes''' them?)
15 ##* (RQ:Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica edition=2nd chapter=A Further
Illustration page=33 passage=Thus hath he deluded many Nations in his
Auguriall and Extiſpicious inventions, from caſuall and uncontrived
contingences divining events ſucceeding. Which Tuſcan ſuperſtition
ſeaſing upon Rome hath ſince '''poſſeſſed''' all Europe.)
16 ##* (RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress page=129 passage=He [Envy]
neither regardeth Prince nor People, Law nor Cuſtom: but doth all that
he can to '''poſſeſs''' all men with certain of his diſloyal notions,
which he in the general calls Principles of Faith and Holineſs.)
17 ##* {RQ:Cowper Poems|poem=Charity|page=207|passage=At ev'ry
ſtroke wit flaſhes in our eyes, / The turns are quick, the poliſh'd
points ſurpriſe, / But ſhine with cruel and tremendous charms, / That
while they pleaſe '''poſſeſs''' us with alarms: (...)}
18 ##* {RQ:Scott Quentin Durward|volume=I|chapter=The
Envoy|pages=187–188|pageref=187|passage=Some male or female flatterer
had, in evil hour, '''possessed''' him with the idea that there was much
beauty of contour in a pair of huge substantial legs, which he had
derived from his father, a car-man of Limoges; (...)}
19 ## To occupy the attention or time#Noun of (someone).
20 ##* {RQ:Walton Compleat
Angler|chapter=I|pages=33–34|pageref=34|passage=[W]hen he [(w:
Henry Wotton)] was beyond ſeventy years of age he made this
deſcription of a part of the preſent pleaſure that '''poſſeſt''' him,
(...)}
21 ##* {RQ:Defoe Crusoe 2|page=9|passage=[M]y Head quite was turn'd
with the Whimſies of foreign Adventures, and all the pleaſant Amuſements
of my Farm, and my Garden, my Cattle, and my Family, which before
entirely '''poſſeſt''' me, were nothing to me, had no Reliſh, and were
like Muſick to one that has no Ear, or Food to one that has no Taſte:
(...)}
22 ## (lb en also literary) To obtain or seize (something); to
gain#Verb, to win#Verb.
23 ##* {RQ:Spenser Faerie
Queene|book=III|canto=III|stanza=51|page=440|passage=[T]hey in ſecret
counſell cloſe conſpird, / How to effect ſo hard an enterprize, / And to
'''poſſeſſe''' the purpoſe they deſird: (...)}
24 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare
Tempest|act=III|scene=ii|page=12|passage=[T]here thou maiſt braine him,
/ Hauing firſt ſeiz'd his bookes: (...) Remember / Firſt to
'''poſſeſſe''' his Bookes; for without them / Hee's but a Sot, as I am;
(...)}
25 ## (lb en also reflexive) ''Chiefly followed by'' '''of''' or
'''with''': to vest#Verb ownership of something in (oneself or someone);
to bestow upon, to endow.
26 ##: (synonyms en seise)
27 ##: (antonyms en dispossess unpossess)
28 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Lucrece|chapter=Argument|passage=''Lvcius
Tarquinius'' (for his exceſſive pride ſurnamed ''Superbus'') after hee
had cauſed his owne father in law ''Seruius Tullius'' to be cruelly
murdred, and contrarie to the Romaine lawes and cuſtomes, not requiring
or ſtaying for the peoples ſuffrages, had '''poſſeſſed''' himſelfe of
the kingdome: (...)}
29 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2 Q1 act=II scene=i page=32
passage=And for theſe great affaires do aske ſome charge, / Tovvards our
aſsiſtance vve doe seize ſeaze to vs: / The Plate, coine, reuenevves,
and moueables / VVhereof our Vnckle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20of%20Gaunt did ſtand
'''poſſeſt'''.)
30 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra act=III scene=xi page=355
column=2 passage=I will '''poſſeſſe''' you of that ſhip and Treaſure.)
31 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets|sonnet=29|page=47|passage=VVhen in
diſgrace with Fortune and mens eyes, / I all alone bevveepe my out-caſt
ſtate, / (...) / VViſhing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd
like him, like him with friends '''poſſeſt''', / (...) / For thy ſweet
loue remembred ſuch vvelth brings, / That then I scorn to change my
ſtate with Kings.}
32 ##* (RQ:Milton Of Education page=2 passage=The end then of
learning is to repair the ruins of our firſt parents by regaining to
knovv God aright, and out of that knovvledge to love him, to imitate
him, to be like him, as vve may the neereſt by '''poſſeſſing''' our
ſouls of true vertue, vvhich being united to the heavenly grace of faith
makes up the higheſt perfection.)
33 ##* (RQ:Cowper Homer volume=I book=III lines=104–109 page=70
passage=[H]e, the hoſts between, / With warlike Menelaus ſhall in fight
/ Contend for Helen, and for all her wealth. / Who ſtrongest proves, and
conquers, he, of her / And her's '''poſſeſt''', ſhall bear them ſafe
away, / And oaths of amity ſhall bind the reſt.)
34 # (lb en law) To have control#Noun or possession of, but not to
own (a chattel or an interest#Noun in land#Noun).
35 # (lb en obsolete)
36 ## To give#Verb (someone) information or knowledge; to acquaint,
to inform.
37 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing
Q|act=V|scene=i|page=68|passage=I cannot bid you bid my daughter liue, /
That were impoſſible, but I pray you both, / '''Poſſeſs''' the people in
Meſſina here, / How innocent ſhe died, (...)}
38 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Twelfth Night act=II scene=iii page=261
column=2 passage=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Toby%20Belch].
'''Poſſeſſe''' vs, '''poſſeſſe''' vs, tell vs ſomething of him. /
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20(Twelfth%20Night)]. Marrie ſir,
ſometimes he is a kinde of Puritane.)
39 ##* {RQ:Herbert Travaile|chapter=Occurrents in
Cazbeen|page=123|passage=The Pagan in ſhort told him, if hee had any
more to '''poſſeſſe''' the King he ſhould firſt acquaint him, and
conſequently haue an anſwer, to which our Ambaſſadour replyed little,
tho diſcontented much, perceiuing by this, he ſhould haue no further
acceſſe vnto the King, (...)}
40 ## To have the ability to use#Verb, or knowledge of (a language, a
skill#Noun, etc.)
41 ##* {RQ:Thackeray Henry Esmond|volume=I|chapter=Whither in the
Time of Thomas, Third Viscount, I Had Preceded him, as Page to
Isabella|page=65|passage=And Mr. Holt found that Harry could read and
write, and '''poſſeſſed''' the two languages of French and Engliſh very
well, (...)}
42 ## To inhabit or occupy (a place#Noun).
43 ##* (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost book=IV page=106 lines=426–432
passage=[W]ell thou knowſt / God hath pronounc't it death to taſte that
Tree, / The only ſign of our obedience left / Among ſo many ſignes of
power and rule / Conferrd upon us, and Dominion giv'n / Over all other
Creatures that '''poſſeſſe''' Earth, Aire, and Sea.)
44 ##* (RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress page=16 passage=Wherefore
getting out again, on that ſide next to his own Houſe; he [Pliable] told
me, I ſhould '''poſſeſs''' the brave Countrey alone for him: ſo he went
his way, and I came mine.)
45 ##* {RQ:Defoe New Voyage|part=II|page=115|passage=[W]e are not
willing to let any other Nation ſettle there, becauſe we would not let
them ſee how weak we are, and what a vaſt Extent of Land we
'''poſſeſs''' there with a few Men: (...)}
46 ##* (RQ:Rossetti Poems poem=The Blessed Damozel stanza=11 page=4
passage=When those bells / '''Possessed''' the mid-day air, / Strove not
her steps to reach my side / Down all the echoing stair?)
47 ## ''Chiefly followed by'' '''that''': to convince or persuade
(someone).
48 ##* {RQ:Arbuthnot Law|part=3|chapter=''Jack''’s Charms, or the
Method by which He Gain’d ''Peg''’s Heart|page=12|passage=By ſuch
malicious Inſinuations, he had '''poſſeſs'd''' the Lady, that he was the
only Man in the World, of a ſound, pure, and untainted Conſtitution:
(...)}
49 (lb en intransitive)
50 # To dominate sexually; to have sexual intercourse with.
51 # To inhabit or occupy a place.
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
possess
vb.
1 (lb en transitive)
2 # To have#Verb (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to
own#Verb.
3 # Of an idea, thought#Noun, etc.: to dominate (someone's
mind#Noun); to strongly influence#Verb.
4 # Of a supernatural entity, especially one regard#Verb as
evil#Adjective: to take control of (an animal or person's body or mind).
5 # (lb en also reflexive chiefly literary and poetic) Of a person:
to control#Verb or dominate (oneself or someone, or one's own or
someone's heart#Noun, mind, etc.).
6 ## To dominate (a person) sexually; to have sexual intercourse with
(a person).
7 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It act=IV scene=i page=201 column=2
passage=Now tell me how long you would haue her, after you haue
'''poſſeſt''' her?)
8 ##* (RQ:Joyce Ulysses page=472 passage=She leads him towards the
steps, drawing him by the odour of her armpits, the vice of her painted
eyes, the rustle of her slip in whose sinuous folds lurks the lion reek
of all the male brutes that have '''possessed''' her.)
9 # (lb en archaic)
10 ## To cause#Verb an idea, thought, etc., to strongly affect#Verb
or influence (someone); to inspire, to preoccupy.
11 ##: (ux en What on earth '''possessed''' you to go walking by the
quarry at midnight?)
12 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona act=III scene=i
page=30 column=1 passage=My eares are ſtopt, & cannot hear good
newes, / So much of bad already hath '''poſſeſt''' them.)
13 ##* (RQ:Bacon Learning book=2 page=91 passage=Heare is obſerued
that in all cauſes the firſt tale '''poſſeſſeth''' much, in ſorte, that
the preiudice, thereby wrought wil bee hardly remooued, excepte ſome
abuſe or falſitie in the Information be detected.)
14 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Tempest act=II scene=i page=8 column=1
passage=What a ſtrange drowſines '''poſſeſſes''' them?)
15 ##* (RQ:Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica edition=2nd chapter=A Further
Illustration page=33 passage=Thus hath he deluded many Nations in his
Auguriall and Extiſpicious inventions, from caſuall and uncontrived
contingences divining events ſucceeding. Which Tuſcan ſuperſtition
ſeaſing upon Rome hath ſince '''poſſeſſed''' all Europe.)
16 ##* (RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress page=129 passage=He [Envy]
neither regardeth Prince nor People, Law nor Cuſtom: but doth all that
he can to '''poſſeſs''' all men with certain of his diſloyal notions,
which he in the general calls Principles of Faith and Holineſs.)
17 ##* {RQ:Cowper Poems|poem=Charity|page=207|passage=At ev'ry
ſtroke wit flaſhes in our eyes, / The turns are quick, the poliſh'd
points ſurpriſe, / But ſhine with cruel and tremendous charms, / That
while they pleaſe '''poſſeſs''' us with alarms: (...)}
18 ##* {RQ:Scott Quentin Durward|volume=I|chapter=The
Envoy|pages=187–188|pageref=187|passage=Some male or female flatterer
had, in evil hour, '''possessed''' him with the idea that there was much
beauty of contour in a pair of huge substantial legs, which he had
derived from his father, a car-man of Limoges; (...)}
19 ## To occupy the attention or time#Noun of (someone).
20 ##* {RQ:Walton Compleat
Angler|chapter=I|pages=33–34|pageref=34|passage=[W]hen he [(w:
Henry Wotton)] was beyond ſeventy years of age he made this
deſcription of a part of the preſent pleaſure that '''poſſeſt''' him,
(...)}
21 ##* {RQ:Defoe Crusoe 2|page=9|passage=[M]y Head quite was turn'd
with the Whimſies of foreign Adventures, and all the pleaſant Amuſements
of my Farm, and my Garden, my Cattle, and my Family, which before
entirely '''poſſeſt''' me, were nothing to me, had no Reliſh, and were
like Muſick to one that has no Ear, or Food to one that has no Taſte:
(...)}
22 ## (lb en also literary) To obtain or seize (something); to
gain#Verb, to win#Verb.
23 ##* {RQ:Spenser Faerie
Queene|book=III|canto=III|stanza=51|page=440|passage=[T]hey in ſecret
counſell cloſe conſpird, / How to effect ſo hard an enterprize, / And to
'''poſſeſſe''' the purpoſe they deſird: (...)}
24 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare
Tempest|act=III|scene=ii|page=12|passage=[T]here thou maiſt braine him,
/ Hauing firſt ſeiz'd his bookes: (...) Remember / Firſt to
'''poſſeſſe''' his Bookes; for without them / Hee's but a Sot, as I am;
(...)}
25 ## (lb en also reflexive) ''Chiefly followed by'' '''of''' or
'''with''': to vest#Verb ownership of something in (oneself or someone);
to bestow upon, to endow.
26 ##: (synonyms en seise)
27 ##: (antonyms en dispossess unpossess)
28 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Lucrece|chapter=Argument|passage=''Lvcius
Tarquinius'' (for his exceſſive pride ſurnamed ''Superbus'') after hee
had cauſed his owne father in law ''Seruius Tullius'' to be cruelly
murdred, and contrarie to the Romaine lawes and cuſtomes, not requiring
or ſtaying for the peoples ſuffrages, had '''poſſeſſed''' himſelfe of
the kingdome: (...)}
29 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2 Q1 act=II scene=i page=32
passage=And for theſe great affaires do aske ſome charge, / Tovvards our
aſsiſtance vve doe seize ſeaze to vs: / The Plate, coine, reuenevves,
and moueables / VVhereof our Vnckle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20of%20Gaunt did ſtand
'''poſſeſt'''.)
30 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra act=III scene=xi page=355
column=2 passage=I will '''poſſeſſe''' you of that ſhip and Treaſure.)
31 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets|sonnet=29|page=47|passage=VVhen in
diſgrace with Fortune and mens eyes, / I all alone bevveepe my out-caſt
ſtate, / (...) / VViſhing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd
like him, like him with friends '''poſſeſt''', / (...) / For thy ſweet
loue remembred ſuch vvelth brings, / That then I scorn to change my
ſtate with Kings.}
32 ##* (RQ:Milton Of Education page=2 passage=The end then of
learning is to repair the ruins of our firſt parents by regaining to
knovv God aright, and out of that knovvledge to love him, to imitate
him, to be like him, as vve may the neereſt by '''poſſeſſing''' our
ſouls of true vertue, vvhich being united to the heavenly grace of faith
makes up the higheſt perfection.)
33 ##* (RQ:Cowper Homer volume=I book=III lines=104–109 page=70
passage=[H]e, the hoſts between, / With warlike Menelaus ſhall in fight
/ Contend for Helen, and for all her wealth. / Who ſtrongest proves, and
conquers, he, of her / And her's '''poſſeſt''', ſhall bear them ſafe
away, / And oaths of amity ſhall bind the reſt.)
34 # (lb en law) To have control#Noun or possession of, but not to
own (a chattel or an interest#Noun in land#Noun).
35 # (lb en obsolete)
36 ## To give#Verb (someone) information or knowledge; to acquaint,
to inform.
37 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing
Q|act=V|scene=i|page=68|passage=I cannot bid you bid my daughter liue, /
That were impoſſible, but I pray you both, / '''Poſſeſs''' the people in
Meſſina here, / How innocent ſhe died, (...)}
38 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Twelfth Night act=II scene=iii page=261
column=2 passage=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Toby%20Belch].
'''Poſſeſſe''' vs, '''poſſeſſe''' vs, tell vs ſomething of him. /
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20(Twelfth%20Night)]. Marrie ſir,
ſometimes he is a kinde of Puritane.)
39 ##* {RQ:Herbert Travaile|chapter=Occurrents in
Cazbeen|page=123|passage=The Pagan in ſhort told him, if hee had any
more to '''poſſeſſe''' the King he ſhould firſt acquaint him, and
conſequently haue an anſwer, to which our Ambaſſadour replyed little,
tho diſcontented much, perceiuing by this, he ſhould haue no further
acceſſe vnto the King, (...)}
40 ## To have the ability to use#Verb, or knowledge of (a language, a
skill#Noun, etc.)
41 ##* {RQ:Thackeray Henry Esmond|volume=I|chapter=Whither in the
Time of Thomas, Third Viscount, I Had Preceded him, as Page to
Isabella|page=65|passage=And Mr. Holt found that Harry could read and
write, and '''poſſeſſed''' the two languages of French and Engliſh very
well, (...)}
42 ## To inhabit or occupy (a place#Noun).
43 ##* (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost book=IV page=106 lines=426–432
passage=[W]ell thou knowſt / God hath pronounc't it death to taſte that
Tree, / The only ſign of our obedience left / Among ſo many ſignes of
power and rule / Conferrd upon us, and Dominion giv'n / Over all other
Creatures that '''poſſeſſe''' Earth, Aire, and Sea.)
44 ##* (RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress page=16 passage=Wherefore
getting out again, on that ſide next to his own Houſe; he [Pliable] told
me, I ſhould '''poſſeſs''' the brave Countrey alone for him: ſo he went
his way, and I came mine.)
45 ##* {RQ:Defoe New Voyage|part=II|page=115|passage=[W]e are not
willing to let any other Nation ſettle there, becauſe we would not let
them ſee how weak we are, and what a vaſt Extent of Land we
'''poſſeſs''' there with a few Men: (...)}
46 ##* (RQ:Rossetti Poems poem=The Blessed Damozel stanza=11 page=4
passage=When those bells / '''Possessed''' the mid-day air, / Strove not
her steps to reach my side / Down all the echoing stair?)
47 ## ''Chiefly followed by'' '''that''': to convince or persuade
(someone).
48 ##* {RQ:Arbuthnot Law|part=3|chapter=''Jack''’s Charms, or the
Method by which He Gain’d ''Peg''’s Heart|page=12|passage=By ſuch
malicious Inſinuations, he had '''poſſeſs'd''' the Lady, that he was the
only Man in the World, of a ſound, pure, and untainted Conſtitution:
(...)}
49 (lb en intransitive)
50 # To dominate sexually; to have sexual intercourse with.
51 # To inhabit or occupy a place.
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
possess
vb.
1 (lb en transitive)
2 # To have#Verb (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to
own#Verb.
3 # Of an idea, thought#Noun, etc.: to dominate (someone's
mind#Noun); to strongly influence#Verb.
4 # Of a supernatural entity, especially one regard#Verb as
evil#Adjective: to take control of (an animal or person's body or mind).
5 # (lb en also reflexive chiefly literary and poetic) Of a person:
to control#Verb or dominate (oneself or someone, or one's own or
someone's heart#Noun, mind, etc.).
6 ## To dominate (a person) sexually; to have sexual intercourse with
(a person).
7 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It act=IV scene=i page=201 column=2
passage=Now tell me how long you would haue her, after you haue
'''poſſeſt''' her?)
8 ##* (RQ:Joyce Ulysses page=472 passage=She leads him towards the
steps, drawing him by the odour of her armpits, the vice of her painted
eyes, the rustle of her slip in whose sinuous folds lurks the lion reek
of all the male brutes that have '''possessed''' her.)
9 # (lb en archaic)
10 ## To cause#Verb an idea, thought, etc., to strongly affect#Verb
or influence (someone); to inspire, to preoccupy.
11 ##: (ux en What on earth '''possessed''' you to go walking by the
quarry at midnight?)
12 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona act=III scene=i
page=30 column=1 passage=My eares are ſtopt, & cannot hear good
newes, / So much of bad already hath '''poſſeſt''' them.)
13 ##* (RQ:Bacon Learning book=2 page=91 passage=Heare is obſerued
that in all cauſes the firſt tale '''poſſeſſeth''' much, in ſorte, that
the preiudice, thereby wrought wil bee hardly remooued, excepte ſome
abuſe or falſitie in the Information be detected.)
14 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Tempest act=II scene=i page=8 column=1
passage=What a ſtrange drowſines '''poſſeſſes''' them?)
15 ##* (RQ:Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica edition=2nd chapter=A Further
Illustration page=33 passage=Thus hath he deluded many Nations in his
Auguriall and Extiſpicious inventions, from caſuall and uncontrived
contingences divining events ſucceeding. Which Tuſcan ſuperſtition
ſeaſing upon Rome hath ſince '''poſſeſſed''' all Europe.)
16 ##* (RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress page=129 passage=He [Envy]
neither regardeth Prince nor People, Law nor Cuſtom: but doth all that
he can to '''poſſeſs''' all men with certain of his diſloyal notions,
which he in the general calls Principles of Faith and Holineſs.)
17 ##* {RQ:Cowper Poems|poem=Charity|page=207|passage=At ev'ry
ſtroke wit flaſhes in our eyes, / The turns are quick, the poliſh'd
points ſurpriſe, / But ſhine with cruel and tremendous charms, / That
while they pleaſe '''poſſeſs''' us with alarms: (...)}
18 ##* {RQ:Scott Quentin Durward|volume=I|chapter=The
Envoy|pages=187–188|pageref=187|passage=Some male or female flatterer
had, in evil hour, '''possessed''' him with the idea that there was much
beauty of contour in a pair of huge substantial legs, which he had
derived from his father, a car-man of Limoges; (...)}
19 ## To occupy the attention or time#Noun of (someone).
20 ##* {RQ:Walton Compleat
Angler|chapter=I|pages=33–34|pageref=34|passage=[W]hen he [(w:
Henry Wotton)] was beyond ſeventy years of age he made this
deſcription of a part of the preſent pleaſure that '''poſſeſt''' him,
(...)}
21 ##* {RQ:Defoe Crusoe 2|page=9|passage=[M]y Head quite was turn'd
with the Whimſies of foreign Adventures, and all the pleaſant Amuſements
of my Farm, and my Garden, my Cattle, and my Family, which before
entirely '''poſſeſt''' me, were nothing to me, had no Reliſh, and were
like Muſick to one that has no Ear, or Food to one that has no Taſte:
(...)}
22 ## (lb en also literary) To obtain or seize (something); to
gain#Verb, to win#Verb.
23 ##* {RQ:Spenser Faerie
Queene|book=III|canto=III|stanza=51|page=440|passage=[T]hey in ſecret
counſell cloſe conſpird, / How to effect ſo hard an enterprize, / And to
'''poſſeſſe''' the purpoſe they deſird: (...)}
24 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare
Tempest|act=III|scene=ii|page=12|passage=[T]here thou maiſt braine him,
/ Hauing firſt ſeiz'd his bookes: (...) Remember / Firſt to
'''poſſeſſe''' his Bookes; for without them / Hee's but a Sot, as I am;
(...)}
25 ## (lb en also reflexive) ''Chiefly followed by'' '''of''' or
'''with''': to vest#Verb ownership of something in (oneself or someone);
to bestow upon, to endow.
26 ##: (synonyms en seise)
27 ##: (antonyms en dispossess unpossess)
28 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Lucrece|chapter=Argument|passage=''Lvcius
Tarquinius'' (for his exceſſive pride ſurnamed ''Superbus'') after hee
had cauſed his owne father in law ''Seruius Tullius'' to be cruelly
murdred, and contrarie to the Romaine lawes and cuſtomes, not requiring
or ſtaying for the peoples ſuffrages, had '''poſſeſſed''' himſelfe of
the kingdome: (...)}
29 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2 Q1 act=II scene=i page=32
passage=And for theſe great affaires do aske ſome charge, / Tovvards our
aſsiſtance vve doe seize ſeaze to vs: / The Plate, coine, reuenevves,
and moueables / VVhereof our Vnckle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20of%20Gaunt did ſtand
'''poſſeſt'''.)
30 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra act=III scene=xi page=355
column=2 passage=I will '''poſſeſſe''' you of that ſhip and Treaſure.)
31 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets|sonnet=29|page=47|passage=VVhen in
diſgrace with Fortune and mens eyes, / I all alone bevveepe my out-caſt
ſtate, / (...) / VViſhing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd
like him, like him with friends '''poſſeſt''', / (...) / For thy ſweet
loue remembred ſuch vvelth brings, / That then I scorn to change my
ſtate with Kings.}
32 ##* (RQ:Milton Of Education page=2 passage=The end then of
learning is to repair the ruins of our firſt parents by regaining to
knovv God aright, and out of that knovvledge to love him, to imitate
him, to be like him, as vve may the neereſt by '''poſſeſſing''' our
ſouls of true vertue, vvhich being united to the heavenly grace of faith
makes up the higheſt perfection.)
33 ##* (RQ:Cowper Homer volume=I book=III lines=104–109 page=70
passage=[H]e, the hoſts between, / With warlike Menelaus ſhall in fight
/ Contend for Helen, and for all her wealth. / Who ſtrongest proves, and
conquers, he, of her / And her's '''poſſeſt''', ſhall bear them ſafe
away, / And oaths of amity ſhall bind the reſt.)
34 # (lb en law) To have control#Noun or possession of, but not to
own (a chattel or an interest#Noun in land#Noun).
35 # (lb en obsolete)
36 ## To give#Verb (someone) information or knowledge; to acquaint,
to inform.
37 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing
Q|act=V|scene=i|page=68|passage=I cannot bid you bid my daughter liue, /
That were impoſſible, but I pray you both, / '''Poſſeſs''' the people in
Meſſina here, / How innocent ſhe died, (...)}
38 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Twelfth Night act=II scene=iii page=261
column=2 passage=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Toby%20Belch].
'''Poſſeſſe''' vs, '''poſſeſſe''' vs, tell vs ſomething of him. /
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20(Twelfth%20Night)]. Marrie ſir,
ſometimes he is a kinde of Puritane.)
39 ##* {RQ:Herbert Travaile|chapter=Occurrents in
Cazbeen|page=123|passage=The Pagan in ſhort told him, if hee had any
more to '''poſſeſſe''' the King he ſhould firſt acquaint him, and
conſequently haue an anſwer, to which our Ambaſſadour replyed little,
tho diſcontented much, perceiuing by this, he ſhould haue no further
acceſſe vnto the King, (...)}
40 ## To have the ability to use#Verb, or knowledge of (a language, a
skill#Noun, etc.)
41 ##* {RQ:Thackeray Henry Esmond|volume=I|chapter=Whither in the
Time of Thomas, Third Viscount, I Had Preceded him, as Page to
Isabella|page=65|passage=And Mr. Holt found that Harry could read and
write, and '''poſſeſſed''' the two languages of French and Engliſh very
well, (...)}
42 ## To inhabit or occupy (a place#Noun).
43 ##* (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost book=IV page=106 lines=426–432
passage=[W]ell thou knowſt / God hath pronounc't it death to taſte that
Tree, / The only ſign of our obedience left / Among ſo many ſignes of
power and rule / Conferrd upon us, and Dominion giv'n / Over all other
Creatures that '''poſſeſſe''' Earth, Aire, and Sea.)
44 ##* (RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress page=16 passage=Wherefore
getting out again, on that ſide next to his own Houſe; he [Pliable] told
me, I ſhould '''poſſeſs''' the brave Countrey alone for him: ſo he went
his way, and I came mine.)
45 ##* {RQ:Defoe New Voyage|part=II|page=115|passage=[W]e are not
willing to let any other Nation ſettle there, becauſe we would not let
them ſee how weak we are, and what a vaſt Extent of Land we
'''poſſeſs''' there with a few Men: (...)}
46 ##* (RQ:Rossetti Poems poem=The Blessed Damozel stanza=11 page=4
passage=When those bells / '''Possessed''' the mid-day air, / Strove not
her steps to reach my side / Down all the echoing stair?)
47 ## ''Chiefly followed by'' '''that''': to convince or persuade
(someone).
48 ##* {RQ:Arbuthnot Law|part=3|chapter=''Jack''’s Charms, or the
Method by which He Gain’d ''Peg''’s Heart|page=12|passage=By ſuch
malicious Inſinuations, he had '''poſſeſs'd''' the Lady, that he was the
only Man in the World, of a ſound, pure, and untainted Conſtitution:
(...)}
49 (lb en intransitive)
50 # To dominate sexually; to have sexual intercourse with.
51 # To inhabit or occupy a place.
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
possess
vb.
1 (lb en transitive)
2 # To have#Verb (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to
own#Verb.
3 # Of an idea, thought#Noun, etc.: to dominate (someone's
mind#Noun); to strongly influence#Verb.
4 # Of a supernatural entity, especially one regard#Verb as
evil#Adjective: to take control of (an animal or person's body or mind).
5 # (lb en also reflexive chiefly literary and poetic) Of a person:
to control#Verb or dominate (oneself or someone, or one's own or
someone's heart#Noun, mind, etc.).
6 ## To dominate (a person) sexually; to have sexual intercourse with
(a person).
7 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It act=IV scene=i page=201 column=2
passage=Now tell me how long you would haue her, after you haue
'''poſſeſt''' her?)
8 ##* (RQ:Joyce Ulysses page=472 passage=She leads him towards the
steps, drawing him by the odour of her armpits, the vice of her painted
eyes, the rustle of her slip in whose sinuous folds lurks the lion reek
of all the male brutes that have '''possessed''' her.)
9 # (lb en archaic)
10 ## To cause#Verb an idea, thought, etc., to strongly affect#Verb
or influence (someone); to inspire, to preoccupy.
11 ##: (ux en What on earth '''possessed''' you to go walking by the
quarry at midnight?)
12 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona act=III scene=i
page=30 column=1 passage=My eares are ſtopt, & cannot hear good
newes, / So much of bad already hath '''poſſeſt''' them.)
13 ##* (RQ:Bacon Learning book=2 page=91 passage=Heare is obſerued
that in all cauſes the firſt tale '''poſſeſſeth''' much, in ſorte, that
the preiudice, thereby wrought wil bee hardly remooued, excepte ſome
abuſe or falſitie in the Information be detected.)
14 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Tempest act=II scene=i page=8 column=1
passage=What a ſtrange drowſines '''poſſeſſes''' them?)
15 ##* (RQ:Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica edition=2nd chapter=A Further
Illustration page=33 passage=Thus hath he deluded many Nations in his
Auguriall and Extiſpicious inventions, from caſuall and uncontrived
contingences divining events ſucceeding. Which Tuſcan ſuperſtition
ſeaſing upon Rome hath ſince '''poſſeſſed''' all Europe.)
16 ##* (RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress page=129 passage=He [Envy]
neither regardeth Prince nor People, Law nor Cuſtom: but doth all that
he can to '''poſſeſs''' all men with certain of his diſloyal notions,
which he in the general calls Principles of Faith and Holineſs.)
17 ##* {RQ:Cowper Poems|poem=Charity|page=207|passage=At ev'ry
ſtroke wit flaſhes in our eyes, / The turns are quick, the poliſh'd
points ſurpriſe, / But ſhine with cruel and tremendous charms, / That
while they pleaſe '''poſſeſs''' us with alarms: (...)}
18 ##* {RQ:Scott Quentin Durward|volume=I|chapter=The
Envoy|pages=187–188|pageref=187|passage=Some male or female flatterer
had, in evil hour, '''possessed''' him with the idea that there was much
beauty of contour in a pair of huge substantial legs, which he had
derived from his father, a car-man of Limoges; (...)}
19 ## To occupy the attention or time#Noun of (someone).
20 ##* {RQ:Walton Compleat
Angler|chapter=I|pages=33–34|pageref=34|passage=[W]hen he [(w:
Henry Wotton)] was beyond ſeventy years of age he made this
deſcription of a part of the preſent pleaſure that '''poſſeſt''' him,
(...)}
21 ##* {RQ:Defoe Crusoe 2|page=9|passage=[M]y Head quite was turn'd
with the Whimſies of foreign Adventures, and all the pleaſant Amuſements
of my Farm, and my Garden, my Cattle, and my Family, which before
entirely '''poſſeſt''' me, were nothing to me, had no Reliſh, and were
like Muſick to one that has no Ear, or Food to one that has no Taſte:
(...)}
22 ## (lb en also literary) To obtain or seize (something); to
gain#Verb, to win#Verb.
23 ##* {RQ:Spenser Faerie
Queene|book=III|canto=III|stanza=51|page=440|passage=[T]hey in ſecret
counſell cloſe conſpird, / How to effect ſo hard an enterprize, / And to
'''poſſeſſe''' the purpoſe they deſird: (...)}
24 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare
Tempest|act=III|scene=ii|page=12|passage=[T]here thou maiſt braine him,
/ Hauing firſt ſeiz'd his bookes: (...) Remember / Firſt to
'''poſſeſſe''' his Bookes; for without them / Hee's but a Sot, as I am;
(...)}
25 ## (lb en also reflexive) ''Chiefly followed by'' '''of''' or
'''with''': to vest#Verb ownership of something in (oneself or someone);
to bestow upon, to endow.
26 ##: (synonyms en seise)
27 ##: (antonyms en dispossess unpossess)
28 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Lucrece|chapter=Argument|passage=''Lvcius
Tarquinius'' (for his exceſſive pride ſurnamed ''Superbus'') after hee
had cauſed his owne father in law ''Seruius Tullius'' to be cruelly
murdred, and contrarie to the Romaine lawes and cuſtomes, not requiring
or ſtaying for the peoples ſuffrages, had '''poſſeſſed''' himſelfe of
the kingdome: (...)}
29 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2 Q1 act=II scene=i page=32
passage=And for theſe great affaires do aske ſome charge, / Tovvards our
aſsiſtance vve doe seize ſeaze to vs: / The Plate, coine, reuenevves,
and moueables / VVhereof our Vnckle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20of%20Gaunt did ſtand
'''poſſeſt'''.)
30 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra act=III scene=xi page=355
column=2 passage=I will '''poſſeſſe''' you of that ſhip and Treaſure.)
31 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets|sonnet=29|page=47|passage=VVhen in
diſgrace with Fortune and mens eyes, / I all alone bevveepe my out-caſt
ſtate, / (...) / VViſhing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd
like him, like him with friends '''poſſeſt''', / (...) / For thy ſweet
loue remembred ſuch vvelth brings, / That then I scorn to change my
ſtate with Kings.}
32 ##* (RQ:Milton Of Education page=2 passage=The end then of
learning is to repair the ruins of our firſt parents by regaining to
knovv God aright, and out of that knovvledge to love him, to imitate
him, to be like him, as vve may the neereſt by '''poſſeſſing''' our
ſouls of true vertue, vvhich being united to the heavenly grace of faith
makes up the higheſt perfection.)
33 ##* (RQ:Cowper Homer volume=I book=III lines=104–109 page=70
passage=[H]e, the hoſts between, / With warlike Menelaus ſhall in fight
/ Contend for Helen, and for all her wealth. / Who ſtrongest proves, and
conquers, he, of her / And her's '''poſſeſt''', ſhall bear them ſafe
away, / And oaths of amity ſhall bind the reſt.)
34 # (lb en law) To have control#Noun or possession of, but not to
own (a chattel or an interest#Noun in land#Noun).
35 # (lb en obsolete)
36 ## To give#Verb (someone) information or knowledge; to acquaint,
to inform.
37 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing
Q|act=V|scene=i|page=68|passage=I cannot bid you bid my daughter liue, /
That were impoſſible, but I pray you both, / '''Poſſeſs''' the people in
Meſſina here, / How innocent ſhe died, (...)}
38 ##* (RQ:Shakespeare Twelfth Night act=II scene=iii page=261
column=2 passage=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Toby%20Belch].
'''Poſſeſſe''' vs, '''poſſeſſe''' vs, tell vs ſomething of him. /
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20(Twelfth%20Night)]. Marrie ſir,
ſometimes he is a kinde of Puritane.)
39 ##* {RQ:Herbert Travaile|chapter=Occurrents in
Cazbeen|page=123|passage=The Pagan in ſhort told him, if hee had any
more to '''poſſeſſe''' the King he ſhould firſt acquaint him, and
conſequently haue an anſwer, to which our Ambaſſadour replyed little,
tho diſcontented much, perceiuing by this, he ſhould haue no further
acceſſe vnto the King, (...)}
40 ## To have the ability to use#Verb, or knowledge of (a language, a
skill#Noun, etc.)
41 ##* {RQ:Thackeray Henry Esmond|volume=I|chapter=Whither in the
Time of Thomas, Third Viscount, I Had Preceded him, as Page to
Isabella|page=65|passage=And Mr. Holt found that Harry could read and
write, and '''poſſeſſed''' the two languages of French and Engliſh very
well, (...)}
42 ## To inhabit or occupy (a place#Noun).
43 ##* (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost book=IV page=106 lines=426–432
passage=[W]ell thou knowſt / God hath pronounc't it death to taſte that
Tree, / The only ſign of our obedience left / Among ſo many ſignes of
power and rule / Conferrd upon us, and Dominion giv'n / Over all other
Creatures that '''poſſeſſe''' Earth, Aire, and Sea.)
44 ##* (RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress page=16 passage=Wherefore
getting out again, on that ſide next to his own Houſe; he [Pliable] told
me, I ſhould '''poſſeſs''' the brave Countrey alone for him: ſo he went
his way, and I came mine.)
45 ##* {RQ:Defoe New Voyage|part=II|page=115|passage=[W]e are not
willing to let any other Nation ſettle there, becauſe we would not let
them ſee how weak we are, and what a vaſt Extent of Land we
'''poſſeſs''' there with a few Men: (...)}
46 ##* (RQ:Rossetti Poems poem=The Blessed Damozel stanza=11 page=4
passage=When those bells / '''Possessed''' the mid-day air, / Strove not
her steps to reach my side / Down all the echoing stair?)
47 ## ''Chiefly followed by'' '''that''': to convince or persuade
(someone).
48 ##* {RQ:Arbuthnot Law|part=3|chapter=''Jack''’s Charms, or the
Method by which He Gain’d ''Peg''’s Heart|page=12|passage=By ſuch
malicious Inſinuations, he had '''poſſeſs'd''' the Lady, that he was the
only Man in the World, of a ſound, pure, and untainted Conſtitution:
(...)}
49 (lb en intransitive)
50 # To dominate sexually; to have sexual intercourse with.
51 # To inhabit or occupy a place.
From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
possess
Englanti vb.
1 omistaa
2 osata, hallita (''kieli'')
3 (refl: en) hillitä itsensä, säilyttää malttinsa, pysyä tyyni
4 (''hengestä'') riivata
From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
possess
Engelska vb.
1 besitta; äga, ha
2 behärska
From English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-afr ]
possess /pəzˈɛs/
besit
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Possess /pəzˈɛs/
إمتلك
From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]
possess //pəˈzɛs//
1. завладявам, обсебвам
of a supernatural entity, especially one regarded as evil: to take control of (an animal or person’s body or mind)
2. владе́я, притежа́вам
to have (something) as, or as if as, an owner
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
possess /pəzˈɛs/
ovládat
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
possess /pəzˈɛs/
ovládnout
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
possess /pəzˈɛs/
mít
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
possess /pəzˈɛs/
vlastnit
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
possess /pəzˈɛs/
ovládnout
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
possess /pəzˈɛs/
posednout
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
possess /pəzˈɛs/
[eko] mít, vlastnit
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
possess /pəzˈɛs/
ovládat
From Eurfa Saesneg, English-Welsh Eurfa/Freedict dictionary ver. 0.2.3 : [ freedict:eng-cym ]
possess /pəzˈɛs/
meddiannu
From Eurfa Saesneg, English-Welsh Eurfa/Freedict dictionary ver. 0.2.3 : [ freedict:eng-cym ]
possess /pəzˈɛs/
perchenogi
From Eurfa Saesneg, English-Welsh Eurfa/Freedict dictionary ver. 0.2.3 : [ freedict:eng-cym ]
possess /pəzˈɛs/
perchnogi
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
possess /pəzˈɛs/
Besitz ergriffen haben
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
possess /pəzˈɛs/
beherrschen
Note: Sprache
see: possessing, possessed
From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 : [ freedict:eng-ell ]
possess /pəzˈɛs/
κατέχω, έχω
From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-fin ]
possess //pəˈzɛs//
1. ottaa valtaansa, riivata
of a supernatural entity, especially one regarded as evil: to take control of (an animal or person’s body or mind)
2. omistaa, omata, olla
to have (something) as, or as if as, an owner
From English-French FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.6 : [ freedict:eng-fra ]
possess /pəzes/
posséder
From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]
possess /pəzˈɛs/
1. का स्वामी या मालिक होना
"Rahul admitted possessing illegal drugs."
2. से सम्पन्न होना
"There are some actors who don't possess some musical skills."
3. पर नियन्त्रण रखना
"She seemed to be possessed by the devil."
From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 : [ freedict:eng-hrv ]
possess /pəzˈɛs/
biti u posjedu, imati, natjerati, posjedovati, prinuditi
From English-Italian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.2 : [ freedict:eng-ita ]
possess /pəzˈɛs/
possedere
From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-jpn ]
possess //pəˈzɛs//
1. 取り憑く, 支配
of a supernatural entity, especially one regarded as evil: to take control of (an animal or person’s body or mind)
2. 占有, 所持, 所有
to have (something) as, or as if as, an owner
From English-Latin FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.2 : [ freedict:eng-lat ]
possess /pəzes/
possidere
From English-Dutch FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-nld ]
possess /pəzes/
bezitten, erop nahouden, rijk zijn
From English-Norsk FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-nor ]
possess //pəˈzɛs//
inneha
From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-pol ]
possess /pəˈzes/
1. [form] posiadać
2. [lit] zawładnąć
From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-por ]
possess /pəzes/
fruir, possuir, ter
From English-Spanish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.1 : [ freedict:eng-spa ]
possess /pəzes/
poseer, tener
From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-swe ]
possess //pəˈzɛs//
1. äga
2. inneha, äga, besitta
to have (something) as, or as if as, an owner
From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]
possess /pəzˈɛs/
1. sahip olmak, malik olmak, mutasarrıfı olmak
2. hükmetmek. possessed sahipli
3. soğukkanlı
4. mecnun
5. çılgın
6. azimkâr. possessed with niyetli, azimkâr
7. mecnun.
From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
/pəˈzɛs/
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]
133 Moby Thesaurus words for "possess":
achieve, acquire, appreciate, apprehend, be acquainted with,
be apprised of, be aware of, be cognizant of, be conscious of,
be conversant with, be enfeoffed of, be informed, be possessed of,
be seized of, bear, bedevil, beset, bewitch, boast, captivate,
carry, catch up, charm, claim, clap hands on, clasp, claw, clench,
clinch, clutch, cognize, come by, come into, command, compel,
comprehend, conceive, conceptualize, consume, contain, control,
demonize, devilize, diabolize, discern, dominate, drain off,
draw off, drive, embody, embrace, enchant, enjoy, fathom, fill,
gain, get, get hold of, glom on to, govern, grab, grab hold of,
grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hant, haunt, have, have and hold,
have in hand, have information about, have knowledge of,
have tenure of, hex, hold, hoodoo, hug, impel, include, infatuate,
jinx, ken, know, lay hands on, lay hold of, loot, make out, nail,
nip, nip up, not let go, obsess, obtain, occupy, overlook, own,
palm, partake, perceive, pillage, pocket, prehend, preoccupy,
procure, realize, receive, recognize, retain, savvy, secure, see,
seize, snap up, snatch, spook, squat, squat on, steal, take,
take by assault, take by storm, take hold of, take possession,
take possession of, understand, usucapt, voodoo, whip up, win,
witch, wot, wot of
From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
v. 持有,克制,为...著迷;
From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
vt. 持有,占有,使拥有,克制,支配,迷住
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