Careful Words

possessed (adj.)

These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 118.

  [The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.

Robert Burton (1576-1640): Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 12.

I die,—but first I have possess'd,

And come what may, I have been bless'd.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: The Giaour. Line 1114.

Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand,

By those deep sounds possessed with inward light,

Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey

Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Fancy in Nubibus.