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Person   /pˈərsən/   Listen
noun
Person  n.  
1.
A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character. (Archaic) "His first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler." "No man can long put on a person and act a part." "To bear rule, which was thy part And person, hadst thou known thyself aright." "How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a friend!"
2.
The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person. "A fair persone, and strong, and young of age." "If it assume my noble father's person." "Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined."
3.
A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child. "Consider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection."
4.
A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.
5.
A parson; the parish priest. (Obs.)
6.
(Theol.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis. "Three persons and one God."
7.
(Gram.) One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject. Note: A noun or pronoun, when representing the speaker, is said to be in the first person; when representing what is spoken to, in the second person; when representing what is spoken of, in the third person.
8.
(Biol.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals. "True corms, composed of united personae... usually arise by gemmation,... yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons."
Artificial person, or Fictitious person (Law), a corporation or body politic; this term is used in contrast with natural person, a real human being. See also legal person.
Legal person (Law), an individual or group that is allowed by law to take legal action, as plaintiff or defendent. It may include natural persons as well as fictitious persons (such as corporations).
Natural person (Law), a man, woman, or child, in distinction from a corporation.
In person, by one's self; with bodily presence, rather than by remote communication; not by representative. "The king himself in person is set forth."
In the person of, in the place of; acting for.


verb
Person  v. t.  To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate. (Obs.)





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... I am disappointed in you," Bertha said, half in jest, half in earnest. "You are not at all the person I thought you were. Whatever I may have fancied about you, I never imagined you a ...
— The Queen's Cup • G. A. Henty
... or of the voice, as an instructor in languages, or if the worst came, as a waiter in a fashionable restaurant—perhaps even a head-waiter—which from the authority he observed in the demeanor of the lord of the hotel dining room seemed almost all the honor that a person in America might hope to gain. But, in order that no proper opportunity should slip by, he scanned the newspapers in the hope of finding ...
— The Vagrant Duke • George Gibbs
... himself, had seen Sam start with little Judie towards the fort, before the dog charge was made, and as neither the boys nor Judie had ever reached the gates, he had no doubt whatever that his three children were slain, as was Mrs. Phillips, the only other person who had failed to get inside the stockade. Mr. Hardwicke wished to go out in search of their bodies, but was overruled by his companions, who, knowing that the savages were still in the immediate vicinity, thought it simply a reckless and unnecessary risk, to go hunting ...
— The Big Brother - A Story of Indian War • George Cary Eggleston
... fear, the story of Mary Turner had ended there and then. Only one person was anywhere near to catch the sound. And that single person heard. On the south side of the pier a man had just tied up a motor-boat. He stood up in alarm at the cry, and was just in time to gain a glimpse of a white face under the dim moonlight as it swept down with the tide, two rods beyond ...
— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana
... plants [i.e. male and female] grow in the woods, and they should always be taken up at night, it is said; as it would be dangerous to do so in the day-time, the woodpecker of Mars being sure to attack the person so engaged.[390] It is stated also that the person, while taking up the root, runs great risk of being attacked with [prolapsus ani].... Both plants are used[391] for various purposes: the red seed, taken in red wine, about fifteen in number, arrest ...
— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith


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