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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dispossess \Dis'pos*sess"\ (?; see {Possess}), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Dispossessed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dispossessing}.] [Pref. dis- + possess: cf. F. d['e]poss['e]der.] To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown.
Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain. --Goldsmith.
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