Shak.
3. To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to
seize.
How . . . to possess the purpose they desired.
Spenser.
4. To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to fill; to
affect; -- said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc. "Weakness
possesseth me." Shak.
Those which were possessed with devils.
Matt. iv. 24.
For ten inspired, ten thousand are possessed.
Roscommon.
5. 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.