Vocabulary : Pospolite to Possessioner

Pospolite : A kind of militia in Poland, consisting of the gentry, which, in case of invasion, was summoned to the defense of the country.
Poss : To push; to dash; to throw.
Posse : See Posse comitatus.
Posse comitatus : The power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed. ;; A collection of people; a throng; a rabble.
Possess : To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold. ;; To have the legal title to; to have a just right to; to be master of; to own; to have; as, to possess property, an estate, a book. ;; To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to seize. ;; To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to fill; to affect; -- said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc. ;; To put in possession; to make the owner or holder of property, power, knowledge, etc.; to acquaint; to inform; -- followed by of or with before the thing possessed, and now commonly used reflexively.

Possessed : of Possess
Possessing : of Possess
Possession : The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own. ;; The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful. ;; The thing possessed; that which any one occupies, owns, or controls; in the plural, property in the aggregate; wealth; dominion; as, foreign possessions. ;; The state of being possessed or controlled, as by an evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as, demoniacal possession. ;; To invest with property.
Possessionary : Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.
Possessioner : A possessor; a property holder. ;; An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc., as contrasted with mendicant friars.

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