prepossess

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: pre=pos=sess

CIDE DICTIONARY

prepossess, v. t. 

•  To preoccupy, as ground or land; to take previous possession of.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
•  To preoccupy, as the mind or heart, so as to preclude other things; hence, to bias or prejudice; to give a previous inclination to, for or against anything; esp., to induce a favorable opinion beforehand, or at the outset.  [1913 Webster]

  "It created him enemies, and prepossessed the lord general."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

prepossess, v.tr.
1 (usu. in passive) (of an idea, feeling, etc.) take possession of (a person); imbue.
2 a prejudice (usu. favourably and spontaneously). b (as prepossessing adj.) attractive, appealing.

Derivative

prepossession n.

THESAURUS

prepossess

absorb, adopt, appropriate, arrogate, assume, bend, bias, busy, colonize, conquer, distort, engage, engross, enslave, hog, imbue, immerse, indent, influence, involve, jaundice, jump a claim, make free with, make use of, monopolize, occupy, overrun, preempt, preengage, prejudice, prejudice against, prejudice the issue, preoccupy, requisition, sit on, soak, squat on, subjugate, sway, take all of, take it all, take over, take possession of, take up, twist, usurp, warp

ROGET THESAURUS

prepossess

Misjudgment

VB misjudge, misestimate, misthink, misconjecture, misconceive, fly in the face of facts, miscalculate, misreckon, miscompute, overestimate, underestimate, prejudge, forejudge, presuppose, presume, prejudicate, dogmatize, have a bias, have only one idea, jurare in verba magistri, run away with the notion, jump to a conclusion, rush to a conclusion, leap to a conclusion, judge hastily, shoot from the hip, jump to conclusions, look only at one side of the shield, view with jaundiced eye, view through distorting spectacles, not see beyond one's nose, dare pondus fumo, get the wrong sow by the ear, give a bias, give a twist, bias, warp, twist, prejudice, prepossess.