Possest

Possest (posse-est, the possible - actual), alluding to the argument:

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

Possest of it, and possessing it, under the covenant of heaven and led by the Shepherd and Bishop of souls, we shall go forth determined to give it place in us and in our presentations as never before.

The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index Grenville Kleiser 1910

'Possest beyond the Muse's painting,' Miss Aldclyffe exclaimed --

Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884

Again, it seems not fair or reasonable that I should be expos'd, for which your self (not to say some others) might have expos'd me for, if I had not done, Viz. for discouraging so much Company from flocking about the Possest

"More Wonders of the Invisible World," by Robert Calef, 1700 ; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 1693

And it seems improbable that a Question should be put, whether she knew (or rather who they were) and at the same time to charge her, and that upon her Life, not to tell, and if you had done so, I see but little good you could promise your self or others by it, she being Possest, as also having it inculcated so much to her of Witchcraft.

"More Wonders of the Invisible World," by Robert Calef, 1700 ; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 1693

Indangering the well-being of a People, and do further add, that as the Scriptures are full that there is Witchcraft, (ui sup.) so 'tis as plain that there are Possessions, and that the Bodies of the Possest have hence been not only Afflicted, but strangely agitated, if not their Tongues improved to foretell futurities, etc. and why not to accuse the Innocent, as bewitching them; having pretence to Divination to gain credence.

"More Wonders of the Invisible World," by Robert Calef, 1700 ; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 1693

Possest thy hart faire false guest _Priams_ Sonne,

A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier Robert Garnier 1591

II. i.146 (333,4) possest of this?] _Possest_, in our authour's language, is fully informed.

Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746