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dispossession|dɪspəˈzɛʃən|
[n. of action from dispossess; cf. mod.F. dépossession.]
1. The action of dispossessing or fact of being dispossessed; deprivation of or ejection from a possession. In Law = ouster.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 379 And playd the arrant rebells, seeking not his dispossession onely, but also his destruction. 1660R. Coke Justice Vind. 36 The dispossession and disinheritance of another. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 201 The remedy by ejectment is in it's original an action brought by one who hath a lease for years, to repair the injury done him by dispossession. 1885Athenæum 23 May 661/1 The dipossession of Huntley from the heritage.
†b. concr. Something of which one has been dispossessed. Obs. nonce-use (after possession).
1640Quarles Enchirid. i. 100 Warres, whose ends are not to defend your owne Possessions, or to recover your dispossessions, are but Princely Injuries.
2. The casting out of an evil spirit; exorcism.
1600Darrell (title), A True Narration..Wherein the doctrine of Possession and Dispossession of Demoniakes..is particularly applied vnto Somers. 1647Trapp Comm. Mark ix. 28 The dispossession of the devil out of many persons..in Lancashire..is very famous. 1775H. Farmer Demoniacs N.T. iii. iii. 351 If by possession they intended only to describe a disorder..the removal of it was all they could intend by dispossession. 1863S. J. Andrews Life of our Lord 233 Cures of dispossession were among the earliest and commonest of the Saviour's miracles. |