possess

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To have (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to own.

   “He does not even possess a working telephone.”

2. fiil Of an idea, thought, etc.: to dominate (someone's mind); to strongly influence.

   “I am poſſeſt with an adulterate blot, / My bloud is mingled with the crime of luſt: […]”

3. fiil Of a supernatural entity, especially one regarded as evil: to take control of (an animal or person's body or mind).

   “They thought he was possessed by evil spirits.”

4. fiil Of a person: to control or dominate (oneself or someone, or one's own or someone's heart, mind, etc.).

   “Uneasy persons, who cannot possess their own minds, vent their spleen upon all who depend upon them; […]”

5. fiil To dominate (a person) sexually; to have sexual intercourse with (a person).

   “Now tell me how long you would haue her, after you haue poſſeſt her?”

6. fiil To cause an idea, thought, etc., to strongly affect or influence (someone); to inspire, to preoccupy.

   “What on earth possessed you to go walking by the quarry at midnight?”

7. fiil To occupy the attention or time of (someone).

   “[W]hen he [Henry Wotton] was beyond ſeventy years of age he made this deſcription of a part of the preſent pleaſure that poſſeſt him, […]”

8. fiil To obtain or seize (something); to gain, to win.

   “[T]hey in ſecret counſell cloſe conſpird, / How to effect ſo hard an enterprize, / And to poſſeſſe the purpoſe they deſird: […]”

9. fiil Chiefly followed by of or with: to vest ownership of something in (oneself or someone); to bestow upon, to endow.

   “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: […]”

10. fiil To have control or possession of, but not to own (a chattel or an interest in land).
11. fiil To give (someone) information or knowledge; to acquaint, to inform.

    “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, […]”

12. fiil To have the ability to use, or knowledge of (a language, a skill, etc.)

    “And Mr. Holt found that Harry could read and write, and poſſeſſed the two languages of French and Engliſh very well, […]”

13. fiil To inhabit or occupy (a place).

    “[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.”

14. fiil Chiefly followed by that: to convince or persuade (someone).

    “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: […]”

15. fiil To dominate sexually; to have sexual intercourse with.
16. fiil To inhabit or occupy a place.

    “Doſt thou thinke in time / She will not quench, and let inſtructions enter / Where Folly now poſſeſſes?”