Definition of "possest" [possest]

• Simple past tense and past participle of possess. (verb)

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• "Gentlemen, these were a part of the thoughts that then possest me, and I there made a conversion of a piece of an old Ketch, and added more to it, fitting them to be sung by us Anglers: Come,"
• "As I thus sate, these and other sighs had so fully possest my soul, that I thought as the Poet has happily exprest it:"
• "These were the thoughts that then possest the undisturbed mind of Sir Henry Wotton."