单词 | possessioned |
释义 | possessionedadj. Endowed with, having, or holding possessions; propertied.In early use with reference to those German princes who, under the Treaty of Westphalia (1648), were entitled to retain possession of lands in Alsace which would otherwise have been ceded to France, and to which France reasserted its claims after the Revolution. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > [adjective] > possessing > having possessions possessing1567 propertied1760 possessioned1794 possessional1848 1794 J. Gifford Reign Louis XVI 551 That satisfaction should be given to the princes possessioned in Alsace. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. v. 315 This of the Possessioned Princes, ‘Princes Possessionés’, is bandied from Court to Court... The Kaiser and his Possessioned Princes will too evidently come and take compensation. 1902 Amer. Hist. Rev. 7 480 The second article aims at the entire possessioned clergy, regular and secular, and affects particularly the hierarchy and the monasteries. 1936 H. A. L. Fisher Hist. Europe III. xxiv. 1046 Braving the Irish Protestant interest and the sentiment of the possessioned class in Britain, ‘the grand old man’ proposed Home Rule for Ireland. 1996 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 24 Mar. 1 Previously he had moved a number of times in his lightly possessioned life, always hitching a small two-wheel trailer to a pulling vehicle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1794 |
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