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

I am not going to prepossess you against even our village scold, by telling her name.

From Deerbrook by Martineau, Harriet

Despite so many circumstances to prepossess him in favor of the Americans, he appears not a very ardent admirer of what he witnesses about him.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

The two known traits, which largely comprehend the private life of Churchill, do not prepossess one in his favour.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various