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

This was regarded as a threat, and did not help to prepossess the members favorably in regard to the feeling with which the king was to meet them.

From Charles I Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

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 appearance and manners were such as at once to prepossess the Spaniards in his favor.

From Elsie in the South by Finley, Martha