prepossess

verb5

1. •
   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.
2. •
   Chiefly followed by by or with: to preoccupy (someone) in an emotional or mental way, so as to preclude other things.

   • A surer signe of his lost shame he could not have given, then seeking thus unseasonably to prepossesse Men of his modesty. — 1642
3. •
   (no longer used) To cause (someone) to think a certain way.

   • […] 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. — 1811
4. •
   (no longer used) To occupy or possess (something) beforehand.

   • All passages out of their campe Martius [Gaius Lucius Marcius Septimus] hath prepossessed, so that there is no vvay to escape, saue by leaping dovvne the Rampart: […] — 1614
5. •
   [with oneself] (no longer used) Chiefly followed by of or with: to cause (oneself) to obtain possession of something beforehand, or ahead of someone else.