possessとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /pəˈzɛs/
• 韻: -ɛs

動詞

possess (三人称単数 現在形 possesses, 現在分詞 possessing, 過去形および過去分詞形 possessed)

1. (transitive) To have; to have ownership of.

   He does not even possess a working telephone.

   • 1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, OCLC 830979744, page 162:

     Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds, which hardly any later friend can obtain.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, OL 1521052W:

     He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.

2. (transitive) To take control of someone's body or mind, especially in a supernatural manner.

   They thought he was possessed by evil spirits.

   What on earth possessed you to go walking by the quarry at midnight?

   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii], page 89, column 1:

     I am poſſeſt with an adulterate blot, / My bloud is mingled with the crime of luſt: [...]

3. (transitive, dated) Chiefly followed by of: to vest ownership in (someone または oneself); to give (someone) knowledge or power; to acquaint, to inform (someone).
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, OCLC 932921146, [Act V, scene i]:

     I cannot bid you bid my daughter liue, / That were impoſſible, but I pray you both, / Poſſeſs the people in Meſſina here, / How innocent ſhe died, [...]

   • c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii], page 261, column 2:

     To[by Belch]. Poſſeſſe vs, poſſeſſe vs, tell vs ſomething of him. / Mar[ia]. Marrie ſir, ſometimes he is a kinde of Puritane.

Conjugation

同意語

• ((with of), to vest ownership): seise
• (qualities または characteristics): inhold