Possession, 1) the having, holding, or enjoying sth.: Lucr. 18. Lucr. 18 Sonn. 18, 10. 129, 9. Err. IV, 4, 58. John I, 39. John I, 39 R2 III, 1, 13. IV, 110. H4A III, 2, 43 (opinion had still kept loyal to p.; abstr. pro concr., == to the actual occupant of the crown). H4B IV, 5, 223. H5 III, 6, 98. H6C II, 2, 53. Troil. II, 2, 152. Hml. V, 2, 90. Oth. V, 2, 278. Ant. V, 2, 318. Cymb. III, 5, 126. in p., opposed to in reversion: “after my death the one half of my lands, and in p. twenty thousand crowns,” Shr. II, 123. “now to London, to see these honours in p.” H6C II, 6, 110. “to bear p.” John II, 366. “to get p.” Meas. I, 2, 150. Err. III, 1, 106. “to take p.” Gent. V, 4, 130. All's II, 5, 28. John IV, 1, 32. H6C I, 1, 44.
2) things owned, property: “the virtue that p. would not show us whiles it was ours,” Ado IV, 1, 223. “stalk in blood to our p.” John II, 266. “we lose the better half of our p.” H5 I, 1, 8. “it outspeaks p. of a subject,” H8 III, 2, 128. “I have abandoned Troy, left my p.” Troil. III, 3, 5. Plur. “--s:” Gent. II, 4, 175. III, 1, 79. V, 2, 25. Meas. V, 427. Shr. Ind. 2, 16.
3) frenzy, madness: “how long hath this p. held the man?” Err. V, 44. cf. IV, 4, 58.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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