Possess(v. t.) To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold.
Possess(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.
Possess(v. t.) To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to seize.
Possess(v. t.) To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to fill; to affect; -- said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc.
Possess(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.
Possessed(imp. & p. p.) of Possess
Possessing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Possess
Possession(n.) The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.
Possession(n.) The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful.
Possession(n.) The thing possessed; that which any one occupies, owns, or controls; in the plural, property in the aggregate; wealth; dominion; as, foreign possessions.
Possession(n.) The state of being possessed or controlled, as by an evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as, demoniacal possession.
Possession(v. t.) To invest with property.
Possessive(a.) Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession.
Possessive(n.) The possessive case.
Possessive(n.) A possessive pronoun, or a word in the possessive case.
Possessively(adv.) In a possessive manner.
Words within possessiveness