Prepossessed

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prepossess \Pre`pos*sess"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prepossessed};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Prepossessing}.]
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     1. To preoccupy, as ground or land; to take previous
        possession of. --Dryden.
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     2. To preoccupy, as the mind or heart, so as to preclude
        other things; hence, to bias or prejudice; to give a
        previous inclination to, for or against anything; esp., to
        induce a favorable opinion beforehand, or at the outset.
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              It created him enemies, and prepossessed the lord
              general.                              --Evelyn.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "prepossessed":
     antiblack, besotted, biased, bicolored, chauvinistic, colored,
     doctrinaire, dogmatic, fixated, gripped, held, hung-up, infatuated,
     influenced, interested, jaundiced, know-nothing, monomaniac,
     monomaniacal, nonobjective, obsessed, one-sided, opinionated,
     partial, partisan, possessed, prejudiced, preoccupied, racist,
     sexist, superpatriotic, swayed, tendentious, twisted,
     ultranationalist, undetached, undispassionate, warped,
     xenophobic