prepossess

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil Chiefly followed by by or with: to preoccupy (someone) in an emotional or mental way, so as to preclude other things.

   “[I]ndeed the Legate [Alberic of Ostia] came not vvith a virgin-judgement, but raviſhed vvith prejudice; being prepoſſeſſed vvith this intent to diſpoſſeſſe him [Rodolphus, or Ralph of Domfront] of his place.”

2. fiil To cause (someone) to have a previous inclination against, for, or to something; to bias or prejudice; specifically, to induce in (someone) a favourable opinion beforehand, or at the outset.

   “M. Krempe was a little squat man, with a gruff voice and a repulsive countenance; the teacher, therefore, did not prepossess me in favour of his doctrine. Besides, I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy.”

3. fiil To cause (someone) to think a certain way.

   “[T]his brief Inventory I have here given as preparatory to vvhat follovvs, and to pre-poſſeſs the Reader, 1. That a natural Indagation according to the light of natural Reaſon touching the Origination of ſuch a Creature as this, is no contemptible or unvvorthy enquiry.”

4. fiil To occupy or possess (something) beforehand.

   “All paſſages out of their campe Martius [Gaius Lucius Marcius Septimus] hath prepoſſeſſed, ſo that there is no vvay to eſcape, ſaue by leaping dovvne the Rampart: […]”

5. fiil Chiefly followed by of or with: to cause (oneself) to obtain possession of something beforehand, or ahead of someone else.

   “to prepossess oneself of land”