Possession /(?)/

Pos·ses·sion

Possession

n.
  1. The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.
  2. The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful. (Law)
  3. The thing possessed; that which any one occupies, owns, or controls; in the plural, property in the aggregate; wealth; dominion; as, foreign possessions.
    When the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
    — Matt. xix. 22.
    Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession.
    — Acts v. 1.
    The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
    — Ob. 17.
  4. The state of being possessed or controlled, as by an evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as, demoniacal possession.
    How long hath this possession held the man?

Phrases & Compounds
To give possession
to put in another's power or occupancy.
To put in possession
To invest with ownership or occupancy; to provide or furnish with; as, to put one in possession of facts or information
To take possession
to enter upon, or to bring within one's power or occupancy.
Writ of possession
a precept directing a sheriff to put a person in peaceable possession of property recovered in ejectment or writ of entry.

Possession

v. t.
  1. To invest with property. [Obs.]