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The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.

A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy. [Obs.] And when Christ saith. Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce. Milton.

The work of a porter; the occupation of a carrier or of a doorkeeper.

To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to seize. How . . . to possess the purpose they desired. Spenser.

One who possesses; one who occupies, holds, owns, or controls; one who has actual participation or enjoyment, generally of that which is desirable; a proprietor. "Possessors of eternal glory." Law. As if he had been possessor of the whole world. Sharp.

One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels. Ps. ii. 9. The potter heard, and stopped his wheel. Longfellow.

ter action of, access to, employment of, etc.; to render ineffectual; to obviate by anticipation. This much will obviate and preclude the objections. Bentley.

To conform by way anticipation. De Quincey.

To conquer in anticipation. [R.] Fuller.

To date anticipation; to affix to (a document) an earlier than the actual date; to antedate; as, a predated deed or letter.

before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a universal clamor." Swift.

A. tasting beforehand, or by anticipation; a foretaste; as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss.

, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock. See Suspension.

Preoccupation; prior possession. Hammond.

or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding.

r to be true, on grounds deemed valid, though not amounting to proof; to believe by anticipation; to infer; as, we may presume too far.

A going before; anticipation in sequence or order. "The law of prevenance is simply the well-known law of phenomenal sequence." Ward.

The act of going before; anticipation. [R.]

Anticipation; esp., anticipation of needs or wishes; hence, precaution; forethought. [Obs.] Hammond. Shak.

Preoccupation. [Obs.] Eikon Basilik