Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dispossessed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dispossess \Dis`pos*sess"\ (?; see {Possess}), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. {Dispossessed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dispossessing}.] [Pref.
dis- + possess: cf. F. d['e]poss['e]der.]
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.
Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain. --Goldsmith.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dispossessed
adj : physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security;
"made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from
one country to another"- James Stern [syn: {homeless},
{roofless}]
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