Possess

·vt To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold.

II. Possess ·vt To obtain occupation or possession of; to Accomplish; to Gain; to Seize.

III. Possess ·vt To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to Fill; to Affect;

— said especially of evil spirits, passions, ·etc.

IV. Possess ·vt 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.

V. Possess ·vt 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.