Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of besieging. 2. (n.) The state of being besieged; -- used specifically of a person beset by a spirit from without.

Multi-Version Concordance Obsession (1 Occurrence) Acts 26:11 Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities. (See NIV)