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prepossessed
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Showing bias or partiality v (en-past of: prepossess )
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prepossess \Pre`pos*sess"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prepossessed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Prepossessing .] To preoccupy, as ground or land; to take previous possession of. --Dryden. To preoccupy, as the mind or heart, so as to preclude other things; hence, to bias ...
Usage examples of prepossessed.
He penetrated with some difficulty into the tent of Scoto: but that experienced general soon perceived in the mien of the youthful stranger a soldier's deportment and air of independence, that prepossessed him at once in his favour.
But the minds of Attius's soldiers being prepossessed with fear and the flight and slaughter of their men, never thought of opposing us.
Marcellus submitted without hesitation: but Cassius kept within his works, either because he thought his cause the justest, or from an apprehension that his adversary's submission had prepossessed Lepidus in his favor.
Forever in a hurry and prepossessed, he was from genteel Virginia stock.
Inside, scientists were prepossessed with pipettes and gels and radioactive probes as they coaxed sequences of genetic code to unravel their identities.