Personate

»v. a. (from persona, Lat.) 1. To represent bya fictitious or a umed character, so as to pa for the person represented (Bacon). 2. To represent by action or appearance; to act (Crashaw). 3. To pretend hypocritically (Swift). 4. To counterfeit; to feign (Hammond). 5. To resemble (Shakspeare). 6.'To make a representative of, as in picture: out of use (Shakspeare). 7. To describe: out of use (,Shakspeare), * _PERSONA'TION, (from personate.) Counterfeiting of another person (Bacon). ‘PERSONIFICA’TION. (from personify.) Prosopopeeia; the change of things to* persons: as, Confusion heard his voice.