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Possessed   /pəzˈɛst/   Listen
Possessed

adjective
1.
Influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion.  Synonym: obsessed.
2.
Frenzied as if possessed by a demon.  Synonyms: amok, amuck, berserk, demoniac, demoniacal.  "Berserk with grief" , "A berserk worker smashing windows"


Possess

verb
(past & past part. possessed; pres. part. possessing)
1.
Have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill.
2.
Have ownership or possession of.  Synonyms: have, own.  "How many cars does she have?"
3.
Enter into and control, as of emotions or ideas.  "A terrible rage possessed her"



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"Possessed" Quotes from Famous Books



... good fortune with something of the same cheerful philosophy with which he had seen difficulty loom up in his path a few months ago. But to-night, on his way home from Mr. Bullsom's suburban residence, a different mood possessed him. Usually a self-contained and somewhat gravely minded person, to-night the blood went tingling through his veins with a new and unaccustomed warmth. He carried himself blithely, the cool night air was so grateful and sweet to him that he had no mind even to smoke. There ...
— A Prince of Sinners • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... the sake of an ideal, for those experiments which must be undertaken with vigor and boldness in order to secure didactic value in failure as well as in success, society must depend upon the individual possessed with money, and also distinguished by earnest and unselfish purpose. Such experiments enable the nation to use the Referendum method in its public affairs. Each social experiment is thus tested by a few people, given wide publicity, that it may be observed and discussed by the bulk of the citizens ...
— Democracy and Social Ethics • Jane Addams
... Parliament for Cambridgeshire; died in 1787. His principal works were "A Free Enquiry into the Origin of Evil," and "A View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion." Boswell writes of him: "Jenyns was possessed of lively talents, and a style eminently pure and 'easy', and could very happily play with a light subject, either in prose or verse; but when he speculated on that most difficult and excruciating question, 'The Origin ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1 • Madame D'Arblay
... the government. These tribes—indeed, it may be said this tribe (the Stockbridges); for of the Munsees there probably remain not more than a half a dozen souls—were formerly an intelligent, prosperous people, not a whit behind the most advanced of the race, possessed of good farms, well instructed, and industrious. Unfortunately for them, though much to the advantage of the government, which acquired thereby a valuable tract of country for white settlement, they removed, in 1857, to their present place ...
— The Indian Question (1874) • Francis A. Walker
... more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, entered the drawing room elegantly dressed in the uniform of an aide-de-camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and then brought ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy


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