Possess

1. v. t. To put in possession; to make the owner or holder of property, power, knowledge, etc.; to acquaint; to inform; — followed by of or with before the thing possessed, and now commonly used reflexively.
2. v. t. To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one’s own keeping; to have and to hold.
3. v. t. To have the legal title to; to have a just right to; to be master of; to own; to have; as, to possess property, an estate, a book.
4. v. t. To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to seize.
5. v. t. To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to fill; to affect; — said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.