possessionel (1310)
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possessionel (1310)

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[ gdw]

[ FEW: 9,237b possessio; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: ∅; TL: ∅; DEAF:  possession (*); DMF: ∅; TLF: ∅; OED: ∅; MED: ∅; DMLBS: ∅ ]
 

This adjectival derivation of possession is a hapax, and appears only much later in nineteenth-century English and French (cf. OED possessional a. and TLF possession (possessionnel)).

a.

1lawpossessory, concerned with possession or ownership: 
( 1310 )  le replegiari sy est la plus tendre choce et la plus possessionel qe soit, et statut ne doigne cele possessioun meyntenir ou je le voille averrer puis la lymitacioun etc.  Ed II iv 72
poseer  possesser  possession  possessioné  possessionel  possessionour  possessorie  possessur  possider  purseierre 
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