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verb
Personate  v. t.  (past & past part. personated; pres. part. personating)  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. (Obs.) "In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous."


Personate  v. t.  
1.
To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; to impersonate (3); hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion.
2.
To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask. (R.) "A personated mate."
3.
To personify; to typify; to describe.


Personate  v. i.  To play or assume a character.


adjective
Personate  adj.  (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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"Personate" Quotes from Famous Books



... am appointed to act a part in the new tragedy called 'The Distressed Mother.' It is the celebrated grief of Orestes which I am to personate; but I shall not act it as I ought, for I shall feel it too intimately to be able to utter it. I was last night repeating a paragraph to myself, which I took to be an expression of rage, and in the middle of the sentence there was a stroke ...
— The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield • Edward Robins
... enough to Christy that the remarkable attempt of one or the other of the officers on board as passengers to personate the other had been explained to those on the quarter-deck, for he observed that they all regarded him with curiosity, and were interested in the matter. As the surgeon passed near him he spoke ...
— Stand By The Union - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray--Afloat • Oliver Optic
... rare gift often sought indeed yet sought in vain not only by dramatists who have very [Footnote 1 Deflexit jam aliquantul im] seldom attained it but by authors of a very great diversity of type and culture. One who undertakes to personate a character belonging to an age not his own hardly ever fails of manifest anachronisms. The author finds it utterly impossible to fit the antique mask so closely as not now and then to show through its chinks his own more modern features, ...
— De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream • Marcus Tullius Ciceronis
... meetings were very important and very private, and after discussion it was decided what ceremonies and mysteries were to be presented. The duke desired that I should personate the character of Holy Church of which he wished to make use ...
— Charles the Bold - Last Duke Of Burgundy, 1433-1477 • Ruth Putnam
... word: you saw, I durst not venture upon any device in our presentment, but was content to be no other then a simple page. Your arrows' properties, (to keep decorum,) Cupid, are suited, it should seem, to the nature of him you personate. ...
— Cynthia's Revels • Ben Jonson


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