About The Word Personate
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Personate
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What's The Definition Of Personate?
[v] attribute human qualities to something; "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous"
[v] pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" Synonyms | Synonyms for Personate: impersonate | personify | pose Related Terms | Find terms related to Personate: act | act a part | act as | act out | adumbrate | ape | body forth | copy | create a role | demonstrate | depict | do | embody | enact | exemplify | figure | foreshadow | illustrate | image | impersonate | incarnate | masquerade as | mime | mimic | mirror | pantomime | pass for | perform | personify | play | play a part | play a role | play opposite | portray | pose as | prefigure | pretend to be | pretypify | project | realize | reflect | represent | shadow | shadow forth | support | sustain a part | take a part | take off See Also | ascribe | assign | attribute | betray | deceive | impute | lead astray | masquerade | repute Personate In Webster's Dictionary \Per"son*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Personated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Personating}.] [L. personare to cry out, LL.,
to extol. See {Person}.]
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. [Obs.]
In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods
ridiculous. --Milton.
\Per"son*ate\, v. t. [L. personatus masked, assumed, fictitious, fr. persona a mask. See {Person}.] 1. To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion. --Hammond. 2. To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask. [R.] ``A personated mate.'' --Milton. 3. To personify; to typify; to describe. --Shak. \Per"son*ate\, v. i. To play or assume a character. \Per"son*ate\, a. [L. personatus masked.] (Bot.) Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon. |
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