Personate
[pә:sәneit]
Definition
(v. t.) To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.
(v. t.) To personify; to typify; to describe.
(v. i.) To play or assume a character.
(a.) 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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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Play, act, act the part of, take the part of.
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Examples
- You have been brought there to personate someone, and the real person is imprisoned in this chamber. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It had been agreed that, in their escape, she was to personate the character of a Creole lady, and Emmeline that of her servant. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- With a slight shrug of her lovely shoulders she made a gesture with her hands personating the casting of something over the craft's side. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Whether the man personating a mechanic was, or was not, an accomplice in the crime, it is impossible to say. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He personated his assumption of innocence even to self-deception. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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