forepossessed
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]forepossessed (comparative more forepossessed, superlative most forepossessed) (obsolete)
- Holding or held formerly in possession.
- Preengaged; preoccupied; prepossessed.
- 1641 October 18 (Gregorian calendar), Robert Sanderson, “[Ad Clerum.] A Sermon Preached at a Visitation Holden at Grantham, Lincoln: Octob. 8. 1641.”, in XXXIV Sermons. […], 5th edition, London: […] [A. Clark] for A. Seil, and are to be sold by G. Sawbridge, […], published 1671, →OCLC, paragraph 12, page 5:
- VVherein I doubt not by Gods help, but to make clear to the judgment of any man, that it is not either uncapable through ignorance, or fore-poſſeſſed with prejudice, theſe three things.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “forepossessed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)