Adjective
To be entirely consumed or gripped by a preconceived opinion or expectation, leaving no room for alternative judgement.
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'[…] Fanny and Mrs. Ferrars were both strongly prepossessed that neither she nor her daughters were such kind of women as Fanny would like to associate with. But now I can carry her a most satisfactory account of both.'