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possest
vb. (context obsolete English) (en-past of: possess)
Usage examples of "possest".
Each of them Is so possest and stuft with his own hopes, That any thing unto the contrary, Never so true, or never so apparent, Never so palpable, they will resist it-- VOLP: Like a temptation of the devil.
MOR: What, to poison me, that I might die intestate, and leave you possest of all?
An then tha must ha known,-- Shoo thowt it time at shoo possest A nice hooam ov her own.
In prehistoric and early historic times, the mountainous region which forms the basin of these two rivers was occupied by a gifted military race, the Etruscans, who possest a singular assimilative power for Oriental and Hellenic culture.