prepossessed
Meaning
prepossess
- (transitive) Chiefly followed by by or with: to preoccupy (someone) in an emotional or mental way, so as to preclude other things.
- (broadly, transitive) To cause (someone) to have a previous inclination against, for, or to something; to bias or prejudice; specifically, to induce in (someone) a favourable opinion beforehand, or at the outset.
- (obsolete, transitive) To cause (someone) to think a certain way.
- (obsolete, transitive) To occupy or possess (something) beforehand.
- (obsolete, reflexive, transitive) Chiefly followed by of or with: to cause (oneself) to obtain possession of something beforehand, or ahead of someone else.
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