prepossess

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His aim is to explore the Antarctic coast south of Australia and prepossess it for his dominion.

From Time Magazine Archive

His talents and accomplishments were of course the cause of this distinction; besides that his personal advantages were such as to prepossess every one in his favor.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various

And thus much may be safely inferred, viz. that the desire is, at any rate, to prepossess favourably the person approached.

From The Idea of God in Early Religions by Jevons, F. B. (Frank Byron)

His countenance wore a reckless look that did not serve to prepossess him with the people at whose mercy he stood.

From That Affair Next Door by Green, Anna Katharine

From that time Herbert came to our house daily and knew how to prepossess my sick father so well, that father finally felt a desire for the union himself.

From The Sign of Flame by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)