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

From that time Herbert came to our house daily and knew how to prepossess my sick father so well, that father finally felt a desire for the union himself.

From The Sign of Flame by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

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)

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

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