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ch distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly inviting to an agrarian experiment. Burke.

tle of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor. It the alienee enters and keeps possession. Blackstone.

Deprivation of possession.

To enlarge. [R.] To maintain and ampliate the external possessions of your empire. Udall.

Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession.

ent Christians, who, in supposed imitation of the first believers, renounced all their possessions.

one's own will or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power. Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused licentiousness. Washington.

The highest judicial court at Athens. Its sessions were held on Mars' Hill. Hence, any high court or tribunal

teel-clad. This day will be launched . . . the first armor-plated steam frigate in the possession of Great Britain. Times (Dec. 29, 1860).

rson, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached.

A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury. Blackstone. Wharton. Encyc. Brit.

To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire. [Obs. with a material object.] Chaucer.

Property; possession. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A session of the court of Inquisition.

In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another.

The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust. Blackstone.

hen completes the purchase; i.e., the bargain vests the use, and the statute vests the possession. Blackstone. -- Into the bargain, over and above what is stipulated; besides. -- To sell bargains, to make saucy ( usually indelicate) repartees. [Obs.] Swift. -- To strike a bargain, to reach or ratify an agreement. "A…

To grudge; to envy the possession of.

Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession. A feudatory or beneficiary king of England. Bacon.

A learning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent inclination. Strong love is a bias upon the thoughts. South. Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to all their actions. Locke.