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dispossess, v.|dɪspəˈzɛs|
[ad. OF. despossesser to dispossess (in Godef.), f. des-, dis- 4 + possesser to possess. Cf. the parallel med.L. dispossidēre, 16th c. F. desposseder, mod.F. déposséder. For the development of sense 2, 2 b, cf. possess.]
1. trans. To put (any one) out of possession; to strip of possessions; to dislodge, disseise, oust.
1565Child Marriages (E.E.T.S.) 136 The said Roberte held possession in the said house till he was, bie order of Lawe, dispossessed. 1595Shakes. John i. i. 131 Shal then my fathers Will be of no force, To dispossesse that childe which is not his. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 142 The seat Of Deitie supream, us dispossest He trusted to have seis'd. 1765H. Walpole Otranto iii. (1798) 49 His father and grandfather had been too powerful for the house of Vicenza to dispossess them. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. II. 229 They were dispossessed by the Arghúns of Sind, who were, in their turn, expelled by Prince Cámrán.
b. To deprive (any one) of the possession of (a thing).
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 536 Y⊇ Sarazyns at this iourney were not dispossessyd of y⊇ cytie of Thunys. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 273 Neverthelesse, I am not dispossessed of hope. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. ii. iv. 22 Why doe's my bloud thus muster to my heart..dispossessing all my other parts of necessary fitnesse? 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 299 Let a foreign body dispossess water of its coldness. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. II. 389 The empire..seemed to be regarded as already dispossessed of all its rights.
refl.1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. xii. 278 To dispossesse them selues of all that euer thei haue. 1595Shakes. John iv. iii. 23 The king hath dispossest himselfe of vs. 1849Robertson Serm. Ser. i. viii. 117 We have also dispossessed ourselves of belief in the reality of retribution.
†c. with from, out of: To drive out (from a possession); to expel, banish. Obs.
1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 272 Having dispossessed F. from his charge, he began [etc.]. 1667Milton P.L. xii. 28 Who..will..quite dispossess Concord and law of Nature from the Earth. 1679J. Smith Narrat. Pop. Plot Ded. B b, Might your Popish Adversaries but once..dispossess you out of the hearts of your Subjects. 1772Ann. Reg. 42/1 To make use of force, in dispossessing our people from Port Egmont.
†d. With double obj. (of omitted). Obs. rare—1.
1607Shakes. Timon i. i. 138, I will choose Mine heyre from forth the Beggars of the world And dispossesse her all.
†2. To cast out (the evil spirit by which any one is possessed); to exorcize. Obs.
1618Rowlands Sacred Mem. 34 Helpe, helpe, haue mercy, dispossesse this fiend. 1683Hickes Case Inf. Bapt. 53 The true Disciples of Christ did then dispossess Devils. 1775H. Farmer Demoniacs N.T. i. vii. 142 Writers, who..represent the devil as being every day dispossessed by Christians.
b. To rid (the possessed person) of (an evil spirit); to free from demoniacal possession.
1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 65 There are many possessed men in those parts..who being dispossessed of the vncleane spirits, do presently beleeue in Christ who deliuered them. 1624Massinger Renegado iv. iii, I cannot play the exorcist To dispossess thee. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. x. (1739) 18 Then Exorcists, that served to dispossess such as were possessed by the Devil. 1676Kidder Charity Dir. 7 How many he..Dispossessed, and Raised. 1801M. Edgeworth Belinda (1832) II. xxviii. 273 He was dispossessed of the evil spirit of gambling, as if by a miracle. 1845G. Oliver Coll. Biog. Soc. of Jesus 74 His fame for dispossessing obsessed persons becoming notorious.
3. transf. and fig. To dislodge, oust, drive out.
1598–9E. Forde Parismus ii. (1661) 4 But Fortune..at an instant dispossessed their content. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. iv. ii. 64 Thou shalt hold th' opinion of Pythagoras..and feare to kill a Woodcocke, lest thou dispossesse the soule of thy grandam. 1676Hobbes Iliad i. 451 And having thirst and hunger dispossest. 1830Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. §68 Two kinds of prejudices, which..moreover, differ extremely in the difficulty of dispossessing them.
Hence dispoˈssessed ppl. a. (also absol.); dispoˈssessing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; dispoˈssess n. U.S. colloq., the act of ejecting from possession, ejectment, as in dispossess proceedings, d. warrant, legal proceedings or warrant to eject a tenant (Cent. Dict.): cf. dispossessory.
1597Bp. J. King Jonas (1618) 76 Discountenancings, disturbings, dispossessings of them. 1599Minsheu, Desposseydo, dispossessed. a1631Donne in Select. (1840) 96 We require..a dislodging, a dispossessing of the sin. 1628Earle Microcosm., Cook (Arb.) 47 For that time hee is tame and dispossest. 1860Froude Hist. Eng. V. 112 Thousands of dispossessed tenants made their way to London. 1901Macm. Mag. Apr. 411/2 Throughout Ireland, on the whole, Protestants are the possessors, Catholics the dispossessed. 1909Englishwoman Apr. 305 Woman rebelled because she belonged to the classes of the dispossessed. 1944M. Laski Love on Super-Tax i. 5 Spring as it came to the needy and the dispirited, to the fallen and the dispossessed. |