mispossess

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ possess.

Verb

mispossess (third-person singular simple present mispossesses, present participle mispossessing, simple past and past participle mispossessed)

1. (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.