possessed
part of speech
adjective; past form of the verb possess
meaning for a pupil
1) (past form, formal) Had or owned. tree →
2) (adjective) Controlled by an evil spirit or a very strong feeling, as in ghost stories. tree →
3) possessed of (formal, old): having a quality. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Past tense of possess: took and owned, as when Israel took the land of its defeated enemies. In the primary lessons: In ghost stories: "the house was possessed". In formal maths problems: "Tom possessed 15 cards" just means he had 15. Phrases: like a man possessed (doing something with wild energy), possessed by.
examples
- So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him remaining; and they possessed his land. (Torah NUM.21.35, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and He will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. (Torah DEU.30.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong. (Torah NUM.21.24, JPS 1917) tree →
- So the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which He swore to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein. (Prophets JOS.21.43, JPS 1917) tree →
- And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and smote Israel, and they possessed the city of palm-trees. (Prophets JDG.3.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- And they possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto the Jordan. (Prophets JDG.11.22, JPS 1917) tree →
- Tom possessed 15 cards before the game. tree →
- In the film, the doll was possessed by a ghost. tree →
- He ran like a man possessed. tree →
- She possessed great courage. tree →
- The old knight possessed a magic sword. tree →
- What possessed you to paint the cat? tree →
- A WOMAN possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. tree →
note
See also "possess". "Like someone possessed" means very fast or wildly. In maths, "possessed" gives the starting amount.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «possessed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.