personalization

[Eng. person a liz (e); -ation.] The act or state of personification. "The personalization probably beginning, everywhere, in the tradition of some unusually ferocious foe."Spencer: Prin. of Sociol ., i. 250. per-son-al-ize, v. t. [Eng. personal; -ize.] To make personal. "Lich ten stein says they personalize death," -Spencer: Prin. of Sociol ., i. 251. per-son-al-lý, adv. [Eng. personal; -ly.] 1. In a personal manner; in one's own person; in bodily presence, not by representative or substitute. 2. With respect to an individual; particularly. "She bore a mortal hatred to the house of Lancaster, and personally to the king."-Bacon: Henry VII. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; go, pot, IMG:content-0928.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0929.png:[blocks in formation] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of personifying. 2. An embodiment, an impersonation. "A choice a emblage of rare and splendid scenery and personifications." -Knight: Pict. Hist. Eng . , ii. 873. II. Rhetoric: A figure of speech, or a species of metaphor which consists in representing inanimate objects or abstract notions as endued with life and prosopopœia; as, Confusion heard his voice ( Mil ton ). Action in personalty: Law : An action brought against the right person, or the person against whom, in law, it lies. *per-so-nā-tæ, s. pl . [Fem. pl. of Lat. persona tus.] [PERSONATE.] Bot. An order in Linnæus' Natural System. He included under it Figworts, Sesamum, Justicia, Bignonia, Verbena, . The order was adopted, but with narrower limits, by De Candolle.