Word Finder - possesses

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To have; to have ownership of.

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He does not even possess a working telephone.

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To take control of someone's body or mind, especially in a supernatural manner.

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They thought he was possessed by evil spirits.

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(chiefly with of) To vest ownership in (someone, or oneself); to give someone power or knowledge; to acquaint; to inform.

The university possesses a very important library.

The monastery also possesses the firman of Mahommed II.

It also possesses the power of combining with most metallic oxides at high temperatures, forming borates, which in many cases show characteristic colours.

Australia possesses one mountain which, though not a volcano, is a " burning mountain."

The church, which contains numerous interesting monuments, possesses also the unusual feature of an apsidal Decorated chapel.

The town has an important woollen trade and possesses dyeing and fulling mills.

In ethics empiricism begins by recognizing that man possesses sensations, and so is liable to pleasures and pains.

It possesses about 1000 species, or about two-thirds the number of Britain.

The town possesses a literary and scientific institute (1850).

The administration of the Servian railways has its factory for repairing engines and principal store of materials in the city, which also possesses an iron foundry.

Algiers possesses a college with schools of law, medicine, science and letters.

Russia possesses large deposits of sulphur in Daghestan in Transcaucasia, and in the Transcaspian steppes.

It is a colourless gas which possesses a characteristic suffocating odour.

This solution possesses reducing properties,and gradually oxidizes to sulphuric acid on exposure.

He possesses the cool temperament of the man of science rather than the fervid Godward aspiration of the mystic proper; and the speculative impulse which lies at the root of this form of thought is almost entirely absent from his writings.

The head of the College possesses and exercises by himself alone the same powers as the College which is united with him; not by delegation from his.

Uzhitse possesses a court of first instance and a prefecture.

Sabzawar was once a city of considerable size, and still possesses a fortress with sides of about 200 or 250 yds.

The cathedral possesses many relics, the more sacred of which are exhibited only once every seven years, when they attract large crowds of worshippers.

The femur often possesses a well visible pneumatic foramen on the median side of the proximal end of its shaft.

Consequently the whole field of vision of these birds possesses three points where vision is most acute.

The apex of the cochlea is turned towards, and almost reaches the anterior wall of the occipital condyle; at most it makes but half a twist or turn; it possesses both Reissner's membrane and the organ of Corti.

The continent, however, possesses the two important genera of the Pseudoscines, namely the lyre-birds (Menura) and the scrub-birds (Atrichia).

The Oriental Subregion comprises all the countries and numerous islands between the Palaearctic and Australian areas; it possesses upwards of seventy families, of which, however, only one is peculiar, but this family, the Eurylaemidae or broadbills, is of great importance since it represents all the Subclamatores.

Nature possesses three great educational or developmental schools - terrestrial, aquatic and aerial life.

St Rambert, in the arrondissement of Belley, besides being of industrial importance for its manufactures of silk and paper, possesses the remains of a Benedictine abbey, powerful in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries.

A few of these have been translated, but as yet no European scholar possesses knowledge sufficient to enable him to study these valuable documents at first hand.

It is more nearly related to modern Siamese than to modern Shan, but possesses many groups of consonants which have become simplified in both.

Montevideo possesses a university and a number of preparatory schools, a state-supported technical school and a military college.

It is a white powder, very slightly soluble in water, and possesses acid properties.

Goyaz is the see of a bishopric founded in 1826, and possesses a small cathedral and some churches.

Pop. (1906) 9749 It possesses iron mines and is the centre of the coal-fields of the Aveyron, which supply the ironworks established by the Duc Decazes, minister of Louis Xviii.

The city is well drained and possesses a good water supply; it is lighted by electricity and has an electric car system.

But even this sheet of water is an inland sea, the only outlet of which, the Bosphorus, is in foreign hands, while the Caspian, an immense shallow lake, mostly bordered by deserts, possesses more importance as a link between Russia and her Asiatic settlements than as a channel for intercourse with other countries.

The forest region, and especially its coniferous portion, though it has lost some of its representatives within historic times, still possesses an abundant fauna.

This was, however, but a subsidiary issue and possesses no permanent spiritual significance.

Nieder-Ingelheim is, according to one tradition, the birthplace of Charlemagne, and it possesses the ruins of an old palace built by that emperor between 768 and 774.

Girga is the seat of a Coptic bishop. It also possesses a Roman Catholic monastery, considered the most ancient in the country.

Gorinchem possesses several interesting old houses, and overlooking the river are some fortified gateways of the 17th century.

Gorinchem possesses a good harbour, and besides working in gold and silver, carries on a considerable trade in grain, hemp, cheese, potatoes, cattle and fish, the salmon fishery being noted.

It possesses two Protestant and four Roman Catholic churches, a synagogue, a mining school, a convent, a hospital, two orphanages, and barracks.

When the first system then is transformed into the second, the excess of energy which the former possesses must appear in the shape of heat, light, electrical energy, mechanical energy, &c. It is for the most part a simple matter to obtain the excess of energy entirely in the form of heat, the amount of which is easily susceptible of measurement, and thus the existence of thermochemistry as a practical science is rendered possible.

In the interior on the north, the Cappella del Corporale possesses a large silver shrine, resembling in form the cathedral façade, enriched with countless figures in relief and subjects in translucent coloured enamels - one of the most important specimens of early silversmith's work that yet exists in Italy.

In the present narratives, however, the stories in which he possesses influence with king and court are placed before the rise of Jehu, and some of them point to a state of hostility with Damascus before he foresees the atrocities which Hazael will perpetrate.

The parish church, dating from the 13th century, possesses several richly decorated reliquaries of the 12th to 15th centuries.

Candia, the former capital and the see of the archbishop of Crete (pop. in 1900, 22,501), is officially styled Herakleion; it is surrounded by remarkable Venetian fortifications and possesses a museum with a valuable collection of objects found at Cnossus, Phaestus, the Idaean cave and elsewhere.

The town possesses breweries, tanneries, malthouses, flour-mills, saw-mills, brick and tile works, potteries and an iron foundry; its trade in butter is considerable.

The town has also been long noted for its beer, and possesses some small manufactures and a considerable trade in fruit.

Besides the petroleum refineries the town possesses oil-works (for fuel), flour-mills, sulphuric acid works and tobacco factories.

This fact possesses great significance in connexion with the development of Asiatic railways.