mispossess
English
Etymology
mis- + possess
Verb
mispossess (third-person singular simple present mispossesses, present participle mispossessing, simple past and past participle mispossessed)
- (transitive) To possess illicitly, as by theft.
- 1864, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England (page 385)
- Be he quite wary, as wood is ware of fire, as thigh of bramble or of thistle, he, who may be thinking to mislead these beeves or to mispossess this cattle.
- 1864, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England (page 385)