To possesse: to haue in ones vse or possession. Tenere & possidere. Cic. Agros possidere. Cic. Bona ex edicto possidere. Cic. By the iudgement or decre of a magistrate to possesse ones goodes. Bona publicè possidere. Ci. To take ones goodes as cõfiscate or forfeited to the common weale or prince. Bona filij pater sine diminutione possidet Pli. iun. The father hath the sennes goods no part of them being diminished by forfeit. Possidere aliquid communiter cum aliquo. Cic. To possesse a thing inyntly togither with one. Domum alterius possidere. Cic. To inhabit an other mans house. Fiduciam sibi commissam tenere ac possidere. Cic. Forum armatis cateruis hominum perdirorum possidere. Cic. To keepe the cõmon place by force with routes and companies of naughtie fellowes. Freui tempore totum hominem, totamq; eius præturam possiderat. Cic. In short space he had so gotten into % mãs fanour as he might do with him & his office as he would. Imaginem vel nomen alterius possidere. Plaut. To bee lyke one, or to haue his name. Innerecundum animi ingenium possidere. Cic. To haue an vnshaniefast disposition of nature. Me triclinia possident. Plin. iun. I am no where but in parloures banquetting. Hæc huius seculi mores in se possidet. Plan. She hath in hir the maners and conditions of this time. Muka possidere. Horat. Opes possidere. Ouid. Palmam possidere. Plaut. To get the price: to haue or obtain she victorie. Plus fidei qum artis, plus veritatis qum disciplinæ possidet in se. Cic. He hath in him more faithfulnes than cunning, more truth than learning. Regnum possidere. Ouid. To haue a kingdom: to be a king. Veritatem possidere. Cic. Magnam vim, magnam necessitatem, magnam religionem possidet paternus maternusq sanguis. Cic. Possideri, Passiuum. Cicero. Quo aliter ager possideatur. Vtenda ac possidenda bona alicui tradere. Ci. To deliuer goods to one to vse and possesse. Possessum publicè in bona alicuius mittere. Liu. To send men to take ones goods as forfeired to the prince or common weale.

I. Lit.: uti nunc possidetis eum fundum q. d. a. (i. e. quo de agitur), quod nec vi nec clam nec precario alter ab altero possidetis, ita possidentis: adversus ea vim fieri veto, an ancient formula of the prætor, Fest. p. 233 Müll.: qui in alienā potestate sunt, rem peculiarem tenere possunt, habere et possidere non possunt: quia possessio non tantum corporis, sed etiam juris est, Dig. 41, 2, 49: ex edicto bona possidere, Cic. Quint. 6, 25: partem agri, Caes. B. G. 6, 11: solum bello captum, Liv. 26, 11: Galli Italiam maximis plurimisque urbibus possident, Just. 38, 4, 9: uniones, Plin. 9, 35, 58, 119.—

b. Absol., to have possessions, to possess lands, be settled: juxta litora maris possidere, Dig. 47, 9, 7: possidere trans flumen, ib. 43, 14, 1.—

B. Transf., for possido, to take possession of, to occupy (very rare except in eccl. and late Lat.): ego possideo plus Pallante, Juv. 1, 108: quot agri jugera? id. 3, 141: ferro septus possidet sedes sacras, Att. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 102; Auct. Her. 1, 11, 19: forum armatis catervis perditorum hominum, Cic. Dom. 42, 110 (dub.): magister, quid faciendo vitam aeternam possidebo, Vulg. Luc. 10, 25: iniqui regnum Dei non possidebunt, id. 1 Cor. 6, 9 et saep. —

2. To occupy, abide in a place (poet.): victrix possidet umbra nemus, Mart. 6, 76, 6: Zephyri possidet aura nemus, Prop. 1, 19, 2; Luc. 2, 454.—

II. Trop., to possess, to have a thing (class.): possidere nomen, Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 27: palmam, id. Most. 1, 1, 31: secli mores in se, id. Truc. prol. 13: inverecundum animi ingenium, Poët. ap. Cic. Inv. 1, 45, 83: plus fidei quam artis, plus veritatis quam disciplinae possidet in se, Cic. Rosc. Com. 6, 17; id. Rosc. Am. 24, 66; Ov. F. 1, 586: possedit favorem plebis Clodius, Val. Max. 3, 5, 3.