possest

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A form of possess — To have (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to own.

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Meanings

verb
  1. obsoleteparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of possess

    But when he found the sullen Trapes ¶ Possest with th’ Devil, Worms, and Claps,

    1677 (indicated as 1678), [Samuel Butler], “[The Third Part of Hudibras]. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The Third and Last Part. […], London: […] Robert Horne, […], published 1679, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 251
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APA

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Chicago

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