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possession Noun 1. the state of possessing; ownership: how had this compromising picture come into the possession of the press? 2. anything that is possessed 3. possessions wealth or property 4. the state of being controlled by or as if by evil spirits 5. the occupancy of land or property: troops had taken possession of the airport 6. a territory subject to a foreign state 7. the criminal offence of having something illegal on one's person: arrested for drug dealing and possession 8. Sport control of the ball by a team or player: City had most of the possession, but couldn't score
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possession Translationspossessions npl (= belongings) → affaires fpl; to take possession of sth → prendre possession de qch possessions possess npl (= belongings) → Besitz m; to take possession of sth → impossessarsi or impadronirsi di qc |
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| True, among the more upright and honorable whalemen allowances are always made for peculiar cases, where it would be an outrageous moral injustice for one party to claim possession of a whale previously chased or killed by another party. We say that that is capable of some particular faculty or possession has suffered privation when the faculty or possession in question is in no way present in that in which, and at the time at which, it should naturally be present. A possession may be considered in the same nature as a part of anything; now a part is not only a part of something, but also is nothing else; so is a possession; therefore a master is only the master of the slave, but no part of him; but the slave is not only the slave of the master, but nothing else but that. |
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