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Retrenchment :: Retrenchment (n.) A work constructed within another, to prolong the defense of the position when the enemy has gained possession of the outer work; or to protect the defenders till they can retreat or obtain terms for a capitulation..

Have :: Have (v. t.) To accept possession of; to take or accept.

Predilection :: Predilection (n.) A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality.

Sequestrator :: Sequestrator (n.) One who sequesters property, or takes the possession of it for a time, to satisfy a demand out of its rents or profits..

Destitute :: Destitute (a.) Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor.

Induction :: Induction (n.) The introduction of a clergyman into a benefice, or of an official into a office, with appropriate acts or ceremonies; the giving actual possession of an ecclesiastical living or its temporalities..

Temporalty :: Temporalty (n.) A secular possession; a temporality.

Command :: Command (n.) The possession or exercise of authority.

Homomorphism :: Homomorphism (n.) The possession of but one kind of larvae or young, as in most insects..

Property :: Property (a.) That to which a person has a legal title, whether in his possession or not; thing owned; an estate, whether in lands, goods, or money; as, a man of large property, or small property..

Recover :: Recover (v. t.) To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.

Birthright :: Birthright (n.) Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born..

Conquest :: Conquest (n.) That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral..

Acquisitiveness :: Acquisitiveness (n.) The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

Vesture :: Vesture (v. t.) Seizin; possession.

Dispossess :: Dispossess (v. t.) To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown..

Happiness :: Happiness (n.) An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.

Imparsonee :: Imparsonee (a.) Presented, instituted, and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession..

Distrain :: Distrain (v. t.) To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement..

Enter :: Enter (v. t.) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them..

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