verb
possīdo
Meaning
- to take possession of
possīdo, sēdi, sessum, 3, v. a. causat. of possideo, q. v..
I. Lit., to take possession of, to possess one's self of (class.; cf.:
habeo, occupo, potior): bona alicujus sine testamento, Cic. de Or. 2, 70, 283: regnum, Auct. B. Alex. 34.—Of inanim. subjects (poet. and in post-class. prose): aër omne possidat inane, Lucr. 1, 386: circumfluus humor Ultima possedit, took possession of, Ov. M. 1, 31: ignis cuncta possedit, Just. 2, 1, 14.—II. Trop., to take possession of, possess itself of, to occupy (class.):
brevi tempore totum hominem, totamque ejus praeturam possederat, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 68, § 158.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
possīdō sēdī, sessus, ere
por (for pro)+sido, to take possession of, occupy, seize : Pompei bona, possessed himself of : regno possesso: (agros) quos armis possederint, Cs.: circumfluus umor Ultima possedit, took possession of , O.—Fig.: brevi tempore totum hominem.