Poss Synonyms & Definitions

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• PossDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. t.) To push; to dash; to throw.

• PossessDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. t.) To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to seize.
2. (v. t.) To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in ones own keeping; to have and to hold.
3. (v. t.) To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to fill; to affect; -- said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc.
4. (v. t.) 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.
5. (v. t.) 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.

• Posse comitatusDefinition & Meaning in English

1. () The power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed.
2. () A collection of people; a throng; a rabble.

• PossibleDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (a.) Capable of existing or occurring, or of being conceived or thought of; able to happen; capable of being done; not contrary to the nature of things; -- sometimes used to express extreme improbability; barely able to be, or to come to pass; as, possibly he is honest, as it is possible that Judas meant no wrong.