Usually means: Create a favorable impression beforehand.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. prepossess: Merriam-Webster
  2. prepossess: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. prepossess: Collins English Dictionary
  4. prepossess: Vocabulary.com
  5. prepossess: Wordnik
  6. prepossess: Wiktionary
  7. prepossess: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. prepossess: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. prepossess: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Prepossess, prepossess: Dictionary.com
  11. prepossess: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Prepossess: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. prepossess: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. prepossess: Rhymezone
  15. Prepossess: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. prepossess: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. prepossess: FreeDictionary.org
  18. prepossess: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. prepossess: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. prepossess: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prepossess: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prepossess: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See preposses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (prepossess)

verb:  Chiefly followed by by or with: to preoccupy (someone) in an emotional or mental way, so as to preclude other things.
verb:  (by extension) To cause (someone) to have a previous inclination against, for, or to something; to bias or prejudice; specifically, to induce in (someone) a favourable opinion beforehand, or at the outset.
verb:  (obsolete)
verb:  To cause (someone) to think a certain way.
verb:  To occupy or possess (something) beforehand.
verb:  (reflexive, chiefly passive voice) Chiefly followed by of or with: to cause (oneself) to obtain possession of something beforehand, or ahead of someone else.

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