prepossess

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to influence someone's opinion in advance, especially favorably

   Her calm confidence prepossessed the committee in her favor.

2. 2
   verb

   to occupy someone's thoughts or attention beforehand

   The approaching trial prepossessed his mind.

From pre- (prefix meaning ‘before, earlier in time’) + possess. Cognates * Late Latin prepossessus (“seized beforehand”)

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