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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: possessed (0.00938 detik)
Found 4 items, similar to possessed.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: posses memiliki
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: possessed kalap, kemasukan, kesetanan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: possessed possessed adj 1: influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion; “by love possessed” [syn: obsessed, possessed(p)] 2: in a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon; “the soldier was completely amuck”; “berserk with grief”; “a berserk worker smashing windows” [syn: amuck, amok, berserk, demoniac, demoniacal, possessed(p)]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Possessed Possess \Pos*sess"\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Possessed; p. pr. & vb. n. Possessing.] [L. possessus, p. p. of possidere to have, possess, from an inseparable prep. (cf. Position) + sedere to sit. See Sit.] 1. To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold. [1913 Webster] Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land. --Jer. xxxii. 15. [1913 Webster] Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once possessed. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To have the legal title to; to have a just right to; to be master of; to own; to have; as, to possess property, an estate, a book. [1913 Webster] I am yours, and all that I possess. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to seize. [1913 Webster] How . . . to possess the purpose they desired. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 4. To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to fill; to affect; -- said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc. “Weakness possesseth me.” --Shak. [1913 Webster] Those which were possessed with devils. --Matt. iv. 24. [1913 Webster] For ten inspired, ten thousand are possessed. --Roscommon. [1913 Webster] 5. To put in possession; to make the owner or holder of property, power, knowledge, etc.; to acquaint; to inform; -- followed by of or with before the thing possessed, and now commonly used reflexively. [1913 Webster] I have possessed your grace of what I purpose. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Record a gift . . . of all he dies possessed Unto his son. --Shak. [1913 Webster] We possessed our selves of the kingdom of Naples. --Addison. [1913 Webster] To possess our minds with an habitual good intention. --Addison. [1913 Webster] Syn: To have; hold; occupy; control; own. Usage: Possess, Have. Have is the more general word. To possess denotes to have as a property. It usually implies more permanence or definiteness of control or ownership than is involved in having. A man does not possess his wife and children: they are (so to speak) part of himself. For the same reason, we have the faculties of reason, understanding, will, sound judgment, etc.: they are exercises of the mind, not possessions. [1913 Webster]

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