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Definition of Possess |
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Possess
To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold. 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. To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to seize. To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to fill; to affect; -- said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc. 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. Related Definitions: Accomplish, Acquaint, Actually, Affect, An, And, As, Be, Before, Book, By, Commonly, Control, Enter, Especially, Estate, Evil, Fill, Followed, Gain, Have, Hold, Holder, In, Influence, Inform, Into, Just, Keeping, Knowledge, Legal, Make, Master, Now, Obtain, Occupation, Occupy, Of, One, Or, Own, Owner, Person, Possess, Possessed, Possession, Power, Property, Put, Right, Said, Seize, The, Thing, Title, To, Used, Will, With |
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Possess Quotations
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Thomas Jefferson There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. Napoleon Hill When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. Napoleon Hill I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. George Washington He does not possess wealth; it possesses him. Benjamin Franklin To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich. Muhammad Ali Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities. Friedrich Nietzsche Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. Friedrich Nietzsche If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself. Friedrich Nietzsche If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Dale Carnegie |
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Possess Translations
possess in Afrikaans is besit possess in Danish is eje, besidde possess in Dutch is bezitten, erop nahouden, rijk zijn possess in Finnish is omistaa possess in German is besitzen possess in Italian is possedere possess in Latin is obtineo, utor uti usus, teneo possess in Portuguese is possua, possuir possess in Spanish is poseer |
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