Definition of Personate

  • (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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