possess
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possess englanniksi
To have (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to own.
(synonyms)
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(RQ:Hobbes Leviathan) of an opinion, that the Souls of men were ſubſtances diſtinct from their Bodies, and therefore that when the Body was dead, the Soule of every man, whether godly, or wicked, muſt ſubſiſt ſomewhere by vertue of its own nature, without acknowledging therein any ſupernaturall gift of Gods; the Doctors of the Church doubted a long time, what was the place, which they were to abide in, till they ſhould be re-united to their Bodies in the Reſurrection; (..)
(RQ:Mary Shelley Frankenstein)
(RQ:Wallace Ben-Hur)
(quote-book)
(quote-journal)
Of an idea, thought, etc.: to dominate (someone's mind); to strongly influence.
(RQ:Shakespeare Comedy of Errors)
(RQ:Defoe Plague Year)
(RQ:Conrad Arrow of Gold)
(RQ:Fitzgerald Great Gatsby)
Of a supernatural entity, especially one regarded as evil: to control of (an animal or person's body or mind).
(RQ:Shakespeare Twelfth Night)
(RQ:Dekker Dramatic Works)
(RQ:Hobbes Leviathan)
(RQ:Defoe System of Magick)'', ''(w)'', and Many Others|page=55|passage=But I am now talking of a Set of People who were not poſſeſs'd BY, but rather, as it may be called, are poſſeſs'd OF the ''Devil''; (..)
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Of a person: to control or dominate (oneself or someone, or one's own or someone's heart, mind, etc.).
(RQ:Evelyn Diary)
(RQ:Spectator)
(RQ:Mary Shelley Last Man)
(RQ:Buchan Thirty-Nine Steps)
To dominate (a person) sexually; to have intercourse with (a person).
(RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It)
(RQ:Joyce Ulysses)
To cause an idea, thought, etc., to strongly affect or influence (someone); to inspire, to preoccupy.
(RQ:Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona)
(RQ:Bacon Learning)
(RQ:Shakespeare Tempest)
(RQ:Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica)
(RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress)
(RQ:Cowper Poems)
(RQ:Scott Quentin Durward)
(RQ:Walton Compleat Angler)&93; was beyond ſeventy years of age he made this deſcription of a part of the preſent pleaſure that poſſeſt him, (..)
(RQ:Defoe Crusoe 2)
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(RQ:Shakespeare Tempest) Remember / Firſt to poſſeſſe his Bookes; for without them / Hee's but a Sot, as I am; (..)
''Chiefly followed by'' of or with: to vest ownership of something in (oneself or someone); to bestow upon, to endow.
(antonyms)
(RQ:Shakespeare Lucrece)
(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2 Q1)
(RQ:Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra)
(RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets) / 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 skorne to change my ſtate with Kings.
(RQ:Milton Of Education)
(RQ:Cowper Homer)
To have control or possession of, but not to own (a chattel or an interest in land).
To give (someone) information or knowledge; to acquaint, to inform.
(RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing Q)
(RQ:Herbert Travaile)
To have the ability to use, or knowledge of (a language, a skill, etc.)
(RQ:Thackeray Henry Esmond)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(RQ:Defoe New Voyage)
(RQ:Rossetti Poems)
''Chiefly followed by'' that: to convince or persuade (someone).
(RQ:Arbuthnot Law)
To dominate sexually; to have sexual intercourse with.
To inhabit or occupy a place.
(RQ:Shakespeare Cymbeline)