Crossword-Solution: PREPOSSESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prepossess | v. t. | To preoccupy, as ground or land; to take previous possession of. |
| Prepossess | v. t. | To preoccupy, as the mind or heart, so as to preclude other things; hence, to bias or prejudice; to give a previous inclination to, for or against anything; esp., to induce a favorable opinion beforehand, or at the outset. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “PREPOSSESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Favorably prejudice | 1 answer |
| Influence beforehand | 1 answer |
| make a positive impression beforehand | 1 answer |
| Bias | 67 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with PREPOSSESS (5)
Biasing.] To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.
Besides, his critical, haughty air naturally did not prepossess employers in his favor when he came to ask for a job.
Winkle, senior, although he had once or twice corresponded with him by letter, and returned satisfactory answers to his inquiries concerning the moral character and behaviour of his son; he felt nervously sensible that to wait upon him, for the first time, attended by Bob Sawyer and Ben Allen, both slightly fuddled, was not the most ingenious and likely means that could have been hit upon to prepossess him in his favour.
For the first two or three miles the country through which I passed did not at all prepossess me in favour of Glamorganshire: it consisted of low, sullen, peaty hills.
Who cleft th' infernal dog's loath'd head in three, And spun out Hydra's fifty necks? by thee As prepossess'd w' enjoy th' Elizian plain, Which but before was flatter'd in our brain.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1985–2007).