prepossess

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To preoccupy to the exclusion of other thoughts or feelings.
• transitive verb To influence beforehand against or in favor of someone or something; prejudice.
• transitive verb To impress favorably in advance.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To preoccupy, as ground or land; take previous possession of.
• To preoccupy the mind or heart of; imbue beforehand with some opinion or estimate; bias; prejudice: as, his appearance and manners strongly prepossessed them in his favor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To preoccupy, as ground or land; to take previous possession of.
• transitive verb To preoccupy, as the mind or heart, so as to preclude other things; hence, to bias or prejudice; to give a previous inclination to, for or against anything; esp., to induce a favorable opinion beforehand, or at the outset.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb To preoccupy, as ground or land; to take previous possession of.
• verb To preoccupy, as the mind or heart, so as to preclude other things; hence, to bias or prejudice; to give a previous inclination to, for or against anything; esp., to induce a favorable opinion beforehand, or at the outset.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb cause to be preoccupied
• verb possess beforehand
• verb make a positive impression (on someone) beforehand
• verb influence (somebody's) opinion in advance