Poss
[pɔs]
Definition
(v. t.) To push; to dash; to throw.
Checked by Lanny
Examples
- It's the cause of much suffering, but it's a consolation to know I posses it, when I wake up in the night. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Airy, in whose posses sion Adams's results had remained for months unpublished and unheeded, wrote Leverrier: You are to be recognized beyond doubt as the predictor of the planet's place. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It will first be proper to observe a few of those experiments, which convince us, that our perceptions are not possest of any independent existence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Shall the despair of success make me assert, that I am here possest of an idea, which is not preceded by any similar impression? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It is only by taste we can decide concerning it, nor are we possest of any other standard, upon which we can form a judgment of this kind. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
Checker: Mollie