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wns, or controls; in the plural, property in the aggregate; wealth; dominion; as, foreign possessions. When the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. Matt. xix. 22. Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession. Acts v. 1. The house of Jacob shall possess their possessi…

Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.

A possessor; a property holder. [Obs.] "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney.

The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. Bp. Hall.

Preoccupation; prior possession. Hammond.

The act or the state of possessing again.

The possession of one's powers; calmness; self-command; presence of mind; composure.

To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

to enter into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, and before the heir takes possession. See Abatement, 4.

bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.

The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on). The Lord shall add to me another son. Gen. xxx. 24.

The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier.

f we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune. Southey. Adverse possession (Law), a possession of real property avowedly contrary to some claim of title in another person. Abbott.

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

title 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.

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