possessioner
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From possession + -er.
Noun
[edit]possessioner (plural possessioners)
- (obsolete) A possessor; a holder of property.
- 1568-1569, Richard Grafton, Chronicle at Large
- possessioners of riches.
- a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
- having been of old freemen and possessioners
- 1568-1569, Richard Grafton, Chronicle at Large
- (obsolete, derogatory) A member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc., as contrasted with mendicant friars.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “possessioner”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)