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personate
(mass) | personate
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personate
(encz) | personate,představovat v: Zdeněk Brož |
personate
(encz) | personate,ztělesnit v: Zdeněk Brož |
Personate
(gcide) | Personate \Per"son*ate\, v. i.
To play or assume a character.
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Personate
(gcide) | Personate \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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Personate
(gcide) | Personate \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.]
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In fable, hymn, or song so personating
Their gods ridiculous. --Milton.
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Personate
(gcide) | Personate \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; to impersonate[3]; hence,
to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his
brother; a personated devotion. --Hammond.
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2. To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.
[R.] "A personated mate." --Milton.
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3. To personify; to typify; to describe. --Shak.
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personate
(wn) | personate
v 1: pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with
fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
[syn: pose, impersonate, personate]
2: attribute human qualities to something; "The Greeks
personated their gods ridiculous" [syn: personify,
personate] |
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impersonate
(mass) | impersonate
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impersonate
(encz) | impersonate,představovat v: Zdeněk Brožimpersonate,zosobňovat v: Jaroslav Šedivýimpersonate,ztělesňovat v: Zdeněk Brožimpersonate,ztvárňovat v: Zdeněk Brož |
impersonated
(encz) | impersonated,ztělesněný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Disperson'ate
(gcide) | Disperson'ate \Dis*per"son'*ate\, v. t.
To deprive of personality or individuality. [R.]
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We multiply; we dispersonate ourselves. --Hare.
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Impersonate
(gcide) | Impersonate \Im*per"son*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Impersonated; p. pr. & vb. n. Impersonating.]
1. To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a
living being.
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2. To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify.
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3. To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to
personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth.
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Benedict impersonated his age. --Milman.
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Impersonated
(gcide) | Impersonate \Im*per"son*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Impersonated; p. pr. & vb. n. Impersonating.]
1. To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a
living being.
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2. To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify.
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3. To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to
personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth.
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Benedict impersonated his age. --Milman.
Impersonation |
Personate
(gcide) | Personate \Per"son*ate\, v. i.
To play or assume a character.
[1913 Webster]Personate \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.
[1913 Webster]Personate \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.]
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In fable, hymn, or song so personating
Their gods ridiculous. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]Personate \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; to impersonate[3]; hence,
to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his
brother; a personated devotion. --Hammond.
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2. To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.
[R.] "A personated mate." --Milton.
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3. To personify; to typify; to describe. --Shak.
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Personated
(gcide) | Personate \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.]
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In fable, hymn, or song so personating
Their gods ridiculous. --Milton.
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impersonate
(wn) | impersonate
v 1: assume or act the character of; "She impersonates Madonna";
"The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man" [syn:
impersonate, portray]
2: represent another person with comic intentions
3: pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent
intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" [syn: pose,
impersonate, personate] |
TO PERSONATE
(bouvier) | TO PERSONATE, crim. law. The act of assuming the character of another
without lawful authority, and, in such character, doing something to his
prejudice, or to the prejudice of another, without his will or consent.
2. The bare fact of personating another for the purpose of fraud, is no
more than a cheat or misdemeanor at common law, and punishable as such. 2
East, P. C. 1010; 2 Russ. on Cr. 479.
3. By the act of congress of the 30th April, 1790, s. 15, 1 Story's
Laws U. S. 86, it is enacted, that "if any person shall acknowledge, or
procure to be acknowledged in any court of the United States, any
recognizance, bail or judgment, in the name or names of any other person or
persons not privy or consenting to the same, every such person or persons,
on conviction thereof, shall be fined not exceeding five thousand dollars,
or be imprisoned not exceeding seven years, and whipped not exceeding
thirty-nine stripes, Provided nevertheless. that this act shall not extend
to the acknowledgment of any judgment or judgments by any attorney or
attorneys, duly admitted, for any person or persons against whom any such
judgment or judgments shall be bad or given." Vide, generally, 2 John. Cas.
293; 16 Vin. Ab. 336; Com. Dig. Action on the case for a deceit, A 3.
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