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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers |
| Division (II) Intersocial Volition |
| Section IV. Possessive Relations |
| 1. Property in general |
| 777. Possession. |
| NOUN: | POSSESSION, seizin or seisin; ownership [See Property]; occupancy; hold, holding; tenure, tenancy, feodality, feodatory, feud or feod, fief, fee, fee tail, fee simple; dependency; villenage or villeinage; socage, chivalry, knight service. bird in hand, uti possidetis [L.], chose in possession [rare]. EXCLUSIVE POSSESSION, impropriation, monopoly, retention [See Retention]; prepossession, preoccupancy; nine points of the law; corner, usucapion or usucaption [Rom. law], prescription. FUTURE POSSESSION, heritage, inheritance, heirship, reversion, fee; primogeniture, ultimogeniture. |
| VERB: | POSSESS, have, hold, occupy, enjoy; be possessed of &c. adj.; have in hand &c. adj.; own [See Property]; command. INHERIT; come to, come in for. MONOPOLIZE, engross, forestall, regrate, impropriate, appropriate, usucapt [Rom. law], have all to oneself; corner; have a firm hold of (retain) [See Retention]; get into one’s hand (acquire) [See Acquisition]. BELONG TO, appertain to, pertain to; be in one’s possession &c. adj.; vest in. |
| ADJECTIVE: | POSSESSING &c. v.; worth; possessed of, seized of, master of, usucapient [Rom. law]; in possession of; endowed -, blest -, instinct -, fraught -, laden -, charged- with. POSSESSED &c. v.; on hand, by one; in hand, in store, in stock; unsold, unshared; in one’s -hands, - grasp, - possession; at one’s command, at one’s disposal; one’s own (property) [See Property]. |
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