personate

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Personate \Per"son*ate\, v. i.
   To play or assume a character.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "personate":
      act, act a part, act as, act out, adumbrate, ape, body forth, copy,
      create a role, demonstrate, depict, do, embody, enact, exemplify,
      figure, foreshadow, illustrate, image, impersonate, incarnate,
      masquerade as, mime, mimic, mirror, pantomime, pass for, perform,
      personify, play, play a part, play a role, play opposite, portray,
      pose as, prefigure, pretend to be, pretypify, project, realize,
      reflect, represent, shadow, shadow forth, support, sustain a part,
      take a part, take off
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