Chapter Positiveness to Post of P by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

xix. 22.

Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession.

Acts v. 1.

The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

Ob. 17.

4. The state of being possessed or controlled, as by an evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as, demoniacal possession.

How long hath this possession held the man?

Shak.

To give possession, to put in another's power or occupancy. — To put in possession. (a) To invest with ownership or occupancy; to provide or furnish with; as, to put one in possession of facts or information. (b) (Law) To place one in charge of property recovered in ejectment or writ of entry. — To take possession, to enter upon, or to bring within one's power or occupancy. — Writ of possession (Law), a precept directing a sheriff to put a person in peaceable possession of property recovered in ejectment or writ of entry.

Possession
(Pos*ses"sion), v. t. To invest with property. [Obs.]

Possessionary
(Pos*ses"sion*a*ry) a. Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.

Possessioner
(Pos*ses"sion*er) n.

1. A possessor; a property holder. [Obs.] "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall.

Having been of old freemen and possessioners.

Sir P. Sidney.

2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc., as contrasted with mendicant friars. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Possessival
(Pos`ses*si"val) a. Of or pertaining to the possessive case; as, a possessival termination. Earle.

Possessive
(Pos*sess"ive) a. [L. possessivus: cf. F. possessif.] Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession.

Possessive case (Eng. Gram.), the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the pear's flavor; the dog's faithfulness. — Possessive pronoun, a pronoun denoting ownership; as, his name; her home; my book.

Possessive
(Pos*sess"ive) n.

1. (Gram.) The possessive case.

2. (Gram.) A possessive pronoun, or a word in the possessive case.

Possessively
(Pos*sess"ive*ly), adv. In a possessive manner.

Possessor
(Pos*sess"or) n. [L.: cf. F. possesseur.] One who possesses; one who occupies, holds, owns, or controls; one who has actual participation or enjoyment, generally of that which is desirable; a proprietor. "Possessors of eternal glory." Law.

As if he had been possessor of the whole world.

Sharp.

Syn. — Owner; proprietor; master; holder; occupant.