English Dictionary

possess

/pəˈzɛs/

verb

To have (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to own. / Of an idea, thought, etc.: to dominate (someone's mind); to strongly influence.

I possess a lot of knowledge in this field.

意味（1）

To have (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to own.

He does not even possess a working telephone.

意味（2）

Of an idea, thought, etc.: to dominate (someone's mind); to strongly influence.

I am poſſeſt with an adulterate blot, / My bloud is mingled with the crime of luſt: […]

意味（3）

Of a supernatural entity, especially one regarded as evil: to take control of (an animal or person's body or mind).

They thought he was possessed by evil spirits.

意味（4）

(also reflexive, chiefly literary and poetic) Of a person: to control or dominate (oneself or someone, or one's own or someone's heart, mind, etc.).

Resolving to possess myself in some quiet if it might be, in a time of so great jealosy, I built by my Brother's permission a study, made a fishpond, an island, and some other solitudes and retirements, at Wotton, which gave the first occasion of improving them to those water-works and gardens which afterwards succeeded them.

意味（5）

(archaic); (law) To have control or possession of, but not to own (a chattel or an interest in land).

意味（6）

(obsolete); To dominate sexually; to have sexual intercourse with.

意味（7）

To inhabit or occupy a place.

Doſt thou thinke in time / She will not quench, and let inſtructions enter / Where Folly now poſſeſſes?