personate

t. & i. [Lat. person at us, pa. par. of persono to sound through.] [PERSON, 8.] IMG:content-0930.png:[blocks in formation] "It has been the constant practice of the Jesuits to send over emi aries, with instructions to personate them selves members of the several sects amongst us."- Swift . 7. To act, play, or perform. "Herself a while she lays aside, and makes Ready to personate a mortal part." Crashaw. 8. To describe. "He shall find himself most feelingly personated."Shakesp.: Twelfth Night , ii. 8. II. Law : Falsely to represent one's self as another person entitled to a vote at an election, and to vote, or attempt to vote, as such other person. "Several voters had personated others." -London Daily Telegraph. B. In trans.: To play or a ume a character or part. per-son-ate, a . [Lat. person at us = masked; per son a a mask.] Bot.: The same as MASKED (q. v.). per-son-ā-tion, s. [PERSONATE, v .] 1. Ord. Lang.: The act of personating or counterfeiting falsely the person or character of another. "This being one of the strangest examples of a per. so nation, that ever was in elder or later times." -Bacon : Henry VII . , p. 113. 2. Law : The act or crime of falsely represent ing one's self as another person entitled to a vote at an election, or the act of voting, or attempting to vote, in the name or character of another.