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 countenance wore a reckless look that did not serve to prepossess him with the people at whose mercy he stood.

From That Affair Next Door by Green, Anna Katharine

The moderator's mode of introduction had not been one to reassure a timid man, nor to prepossess an audience favorably toward a speaker.

From Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Bayne, Mary Addams

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

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)