verb/pɔ.se.de/
to own; to possess
“Aucun riche ne possède plus que moi ce vieux chêne de Fontainebleau ou ce tableau du Louvre. Et ils sont plus à moi qu’au riche si je sais mieux en jouir.” — No rich man owns an old oak in the forest of Fontainebleau or a painting in the Louvre any more than I do. And they belong more to me than to the rich man if I know how to enjoy them better.
Related: posséder sexuellement
From an alteration of an older Middle French possider, from Latin possidēre. Compare also the Old French forms porseoir, porseir, porsoier.