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unpoˈssessed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not possessed or owned; unoccupied.
1594Daniel Compl. of Rosamond ciii, Seeing how many seeke to vndermine The treasury that's vnpossest of any. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 105 The riuer was yet vn⁓possessed by the enemie. 1664H. Power Exp. Philos. 92 If you let in the outward ayr into the cavity unpossessed by the mercury. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 281 If he leaves the country unpossessed, he leaves it free for any other nation to come in. 1748Anson's Voy. i. vi. 64 [Patagonia] is unpossessed by the Spaniards. 1833Wordsw. Itin. Poems, Iona 12 A grace by thee unsought and unpossest.
†2. Not preoccupied; unprejudiced. Obs.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. xv, When a while that instrument had made a brave proclamation to all unpossessed mindes of attention. 1665J. Spencer Vulg. Proph. 61 All the Heralds of Heaven had the badg of some divine Signs, whereby unpossest minds might easily distinguish them from Impostors. 1685Temple Ess., Gardening (1690) 11 The want of Demonstration or Satisfaction, to any thinking and unpossessed Man.
3. Not having possession of something.
1795V. Knox Chr. Philos. §22 note, The mind, unpossessed of virtue. 1840Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) V. 69 A witness..absolutely unpossessed of all idea of obligation to speak the truth. 1899F. T. Bullen Way Navy 25 Many of them quite unpossessed of any knowledge of our most thrilling episode.
Hence unpoˈssessedness.
1819Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) II. 239 How truly Shakspearian is the opening of Macbeth's character given in the unpossessedness of Banquo's mind. |