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Possession, the entrance inwardly into an individual to beget uncontrollable fits, induce blasphemies, Faerie, being the influence those who voluntarily submit to consort, prophesy, or servitude. King James attested that the symptoms derived from demonic possession could be discernible from natural diseases.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
The proverb's meaning is similar to the phrases "you can't have it both ways" and "you can't have the best of both worlds." For those unfamiliar with it, the proverb may sound confusing due to the ambiguity of the word 'have', which can mean 'keep' or 'to have in one's possession', but which can also be used as a synonym for 'eat' (e.g. 'to ...
Res nullius is a term of Roman law meaning "things belonging to no one"; [1] [2] that is, property not yet the object of rights of any specific subject. A person can assume ownership of res nullius simply by taking possession of it (). [3]
Possession, a British-French silent drama; Possession, a horror film starring Sam Neill, Isabelle Adjani and directed by Andrzej Zulawski; Possession, an adaptation of the A. S. Byatt novel, starring Aaron Eckhart and Gwyneth Paltrow; Possession, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Lee Pace
At its core, ownership is about possession, stewardship, and the need to have control over something. Since psychological ownership can be experienced for diverse targets such as concrete objects [ 8 ] and abstract concepts (e.g., jobs, [ 9 ] investments, [ 10 ] brands, [ 11 ] ideas [ 12 ] ), the construct of ownership as a psychological ...
The meanings of these words do not always correspond to Germanic cognates, and occasionally the specific meaning in the list is unique to English. Those Germanic words listed below with a Frankish source mostly came into English through Anglo-Norman, and so despite ultimately deriving from Proto-Germanic, came to English through a Romance ...
Japanese has the verb motsu meaning "to have" or "to hold", but in most circumstances, the existential verbs iru and aru are used instead (with the possessed as the verb's subject and the possessor as the sentence's topic: uchi wa imōto ga iru, "I have a younger sister", or more literally "as for my house, there is a younger sister").