possessioner
nounEtymology From possession + -er.
1
Obsolete A possessor; a holder of property.
- 1568-1569, Richard Grafton, Chronicle at Large possessioners of riches.
- having been of old freemen and possessionersa. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
2
Derogatory, Obsolete A member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc., as contrasted with mendicant friars.