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 saw him again, as you shall hear, but he failed to prepossess me in his favour.

From Captain Macedoine's Daughter by McFee, William

The curb-chain will probably be too tight, also the throat-lash; if so, loosen both, and with your own hands; it is a pleasant way of making acquaintance, and may perhaps prepossess him in your favour.

From Riding Recollections, 5th ed. by Whyte-Melville, G. J. (George John)

Moreover, not only did the facility of conquering the French prepossess him in favor of this journal; but also the circumstance that it--cost him nothing.

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul