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

In this Disguise you take a full Aim, and by presenting your Readers with a Prologue to your own Praise, you would prepossess them with Applause, and fondly surfeit on the Eccho.

From Pamela Censured by Anonymous

Even Irving, that most dispassionate of historians, has called the action of the court-martial just mentioned an "extraordinary measure to prepossess the public mind against him."

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

The effect of it steals into his manner, and gait, and gives him an air of presenting himself, that is sure to prepossess in his favor.

From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Gallini, Giovanni-Andrea