mispossess
English
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editmispossess (third-person singular simple present mispossesses, present participle mispossessing, simple past and past participle mispossessed)
- (transitive) To possess illicitly, as by theft.
- 1864, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England, page 385:
- Be he quite wary, as wood is ware of fire, as thigh of bramble or of thistle, he, who may be thinking to mislead these beeves or to mispossess this cattle.