personable (personabl)

[ Her feigning fancie did pourtray Him such as fittest she for love could find, Wise, warlike, personable , courteous, and kind. Spenser, F. Q., III. iv. 5. At our arrivall, a Soldier convey'd us to the Governor, where our names were taken, and or persons exam in'd very strictly. Evelyn, Diary, Sept. 12, 1641. The person of the orator was in perfect harmony with his oratory. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vii. F. personnage = Pr. personatge = Sp. personaje = Pg. person a gem = It. personaggio, person: see person .] 1. A person represented; a rôle or part a umed or played; a character. Some persons must be found, already known in history, whom we may make the actors and personages of this fable. W. Broome, View of Epick Poesy. There is but one genuinely living personage in all the plays, and his features are those of Victor Hugo. New Princeton Rev., III. 16. 2. A person; an individual; especially, a man or woman of importance or distinction. In the Porch there sate A comely personage of stature tall. 3t. Bodily form; external appearance; person. In respect of theyr owne talnes and goodlye personages al the Galles for the most part accompt vs but dwarfs. Golding , tr. of Cæsar, fol. 62. Spenser, F. Q., III. ii. 26. The damzell well did vew his personage , And liked well. A wounded thing with a rancorous cry. Tennyson, Maud, x. 2. You have never seen the young lady; you can have no personal feeling about her, one way or other. Mrs. Craik , Young Mrs. Jardine, vii. 7. Of or pertaining to the person or bodily form; belonging to the face or figure; corporeal: as, personal beauty. It was the fame of this heroick constancy that deter- mined his Royal Highne to desire in marriage a prince whose personal charms part of her character. were now become the least Add is on , Freeholder, No. 21. 8. In gram ., denoting or pointing to the person; expre ing the distinctions of the three per- sons: as, a personal pronoun; a personal verb. -Chattel personal. See chattel . - Personal action, in law : (a) An action that can be brought only by the person who is supposed to be injured. (b) An action for the recovery of money or specific chattels. (c) Any ac- tion other than one for the recovery of land. - Personal acts of Parliament, statutes relating to particular per- sons, such as an act authorizing a person to change his name, etc.-Personal a ets. See a ets , 1. - Personal bond, in Scots law , a bond which acknowledges receipt of a sum of money, and binds the granter, his heirs, executors, and succe ors to repay the sum at a specified time, with a penalty in case of failure and interest on the sum while the same remains unpaid.- Personal diligence or exe- cution, in Scots law , a proce which consists of arrest- ment, poinding, and imprisonment. - Personal equa- tion. See equation . - Personal estate (in lands), an es- tate the duration of which can be definitely determined or computed in time when it is created, such as an estate for a term of years, as contrasted with an estate for life. See personal property . - Personal identity, the condition of remaining the same person or of retaining all the per- sonal characteristics throughout the changes of mental and bodily life; continuity of personality. Personal-lib- erty laws, in U. S. hist . , during the slavery period, laws pa ed by several Northern States, in order to secure to persons accused of being fugitive slaves the rights of trial by jury and of habeas corpus, which were refused to them by the fugitive-slave laws. - Personal medals, in numis .. medals commemorating persons, as distinguished from medals commemorating events. - Personal pronoun, in gram., one of the pronouns I, we , thou, you, he, she, it, they.-Personal property, movables; chattels; things subject to the law which applies to the person, as money, jewels, furniture, etc., as distinguished from real estate . (See chattel , estate , and real .) Personal property usually consists of things temporary and movable, but includes all subjects of property not of a freehold nature, nor descen- dible to the heirs at law. ( Kent . ) Originally called per- sonal because the remedy for deprivation was to recover damages enforceable against the person of the defen- dant. In the law of England the distinction between real and personal property is very nearly the same as the distinc- tion between heritable and movable property in the law of Scotland. Personal representatives. ( a ) Executors and administrators. (b) Those who succeed to property and rights by virtue of a personal relation, or as deemed to rep- resent in law the person. - Personal rights, the rights which pertain to the person, including the right to life, the right to immunity from attacks and injuries, and the right equally with others similarly circumstanced to control one's own actions. Cooley . - Personal security, the secur- ity afforded by the obligation of one or more natural per- God, before whom ever lie bare The abysmal depths of Personality. 5. An invidious or derogatory remark made to or about a person, or his character, conduct, appearance, etc.: as, to indulge in personalities . sons, as distinguished from that secured by a pledge or mortgage of real or personal property. - Personal ser- vice. (a) In the law of procedure , delivery to the person, as distinguished from constructive service, such as by public a- sonality which could not be overlooked: tion and mailing. (6) In the law of real property , such a servitude as has not been constituted for the advantage of the estate, but has been granted on another's estate, only for the use of a person. Angell . - Personal supposition, the acceptation of a common name to denote the things which come under the cla it signifies: thus, in the proposition "a man is running," the word man has a personal supposi- tion.-Personal tithes, tithes from profits arising from manual occupations, trade, fisheries, etc. - that is, the Mr. Tiliot had looked higher and higher since his gin had become so famous; and in the year '29 he had, in Mr. Muscat's hearing, spoken of Di enters as sneaks-a per- George Eliot , Felix Holt, xxiv. tenth part of the clear gains-as distinguished from the proceeds of agricultural labor. - Personal transaction, in some modern statutes as to evidence, a transaction had in person, as distinguished from one had through agents in the absence of the person.-Personal verb, in gram ., a verb-form having a personal character, or taking a sub- ject; a true or finite verb-form; not an infinitive or par- ticiple. II. n. 1. In law , any movable thing, either living or dead; a movable.-2. A short notice or paragraph in a newspaper referring to some person or persons. Person a les (per-sō-nā lēz), n . pl . [NL. (Lind- ley, 1836), so called from the personate corolla; persona , a mask: see person .] A cohort plants of the series Bicarpellatæ , known by the commonly personate or two-lipped corolla, the smaller rudimentary or obsolete posterior stamen, and the two carpels with numerous ovules, or with two, one placed above the other. It includes the extensive and mainly herbaceous Scrophu- lari a, Acanthus , and Gesnera families; the broom-rapes, parasitic family, strong-scented plants; the bladderworts, herbs; and the aquatic; bignonia the and pedalium colu- personalisation, personalise. See personal i- zati on , personalize . personalism (per's on-al-izm), n. [F. person- nalisme ; personal + -ism .] The character of being personal. personalist (per's on-al-ist), n. -ist .] In journalism , a writer or editor of per- comparison between the outward appearance of things and places in London in 1837 and 1887. He personalizes the two epochs, and sends them walking arm-in-arm down the Strand. Quarterly Rev., CXLVI. 195. personally (per's on-al-i), adv . [ person- ally ; personal +-ly2.] 1. In a personal man- ner; in person; by bodily presence; not by rep- resentative or substitute: as, to be personally present; to deliver a letter personally .-2. With respect to an individual; as an individual. 3. As regards one's personal existence or in- divi duality: as, to remain personally the same being. personalty (per's on-al-ti), n. [ * person- altie , personal tie , personalty, personal it a (t-)s, personality, personalty: see personality .] In law , personal property, in dis- As a witty and slashing political personalist , as an editor of his kind, he was considered by friend and foe as without an equal. The Nation, June 15, 1876, p. 382. personality (per-so-nal'i-ti), l'i-ti), n.; pl. pl. personal i personal i personal it a(t-)s, tics (-tiz). [F. personnalité = Pr. personal it at personalty tinct i on from realty, or real property. See per sonal, real. Our courts now regard a man's personalty in a light nearly, if not quite, equal to his realty. Black stone, Com., II. xxiv. Action in personalty. See personality of laws, under personality. personate (per's on-āt), v.; pret. and pp. person ated, ppr. personating. [ The elder Brutus only personated the fool and madman for the good of the public. Swift , Tale of a Tub, ix. 2. To a ume; put on; perform; play. Does she personate , For some ends unknown to us, this rude behaviour? Mas singer , Great Duke of Florence, iv. 2. 3. To represent falsely or hypocritically; pretend: with a reflexive pronoun. [Rare.] It has been the constant practice of the Jesuits to send over emi aries, with instructions to personate themselves members of the several sects amongst us. Swift . 41. To represent by way of similitude; typify. The lofty cedar, royal Cymbeline, Personates thee. Shak ., Cymbeline, v. 5. 454. 51. To describe; characterize; celebrate. I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of love; wherein.. he shall find himself most feelingly person- ated . Shak ., T. N., ii. 3. 178. In fable, hymn, or song, so personating Their gods ridiculous, and themselves past shame. Milton , P. R., iv. 341. [In this pa age personate is by some referred to Latin person are, play (celebrate with music). See etymology.] II. in trans. To play a fictitious character. 4416 That alphabetic personification which enlivens all such words as Hunger, Solitude, Freedom, by the easy magic of an initial capital. Lowell , Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 2. 2. Embodiment; impersonation. They are personifications ; they are pa ions, talents, opinions, virtues, vices, but not men. Macaulay , Mitford's Hist. Greece. 3. In art , the representation in the form of a person of something abstract, as a virtue or Personification. The "Church of Christ," from the west front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris (13th century sculpture). vice, or of an aggregation, as a race or nation, a body of doctrines, etc.