- Look up
personate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Personation (rather than impersonation) is a
primarily legal term,
meaning "to ****ume the identity...
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particularly the New
World group (Saerorhinum). The
genus is
characterized by
personate flowers with an
inferior gibbous corolla.
Antirrhinum used to be treated...
- poem by the 3rd-century BC Gr**** poet Theocritus. The poet
appears to
personate a
young goatherd, who
after five
lines dedicatory to a
friend whom he...
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Waseem Abbas plays an
ordinary office employee, Sabir, and
Iftikhar Thakur personates an
uneducated villager. On 10
March 2012, Aaj TV
canceled the show. 3...
- in OED
until mC18: 'Whatever
characters any... have for the
jestsake personated... are now
thrown off' (1749, Fielding, Tom Jones).
Pavis (1998, 47)....
- acting, says "There is one
character yet
which will
delight us all to him
personate - that of
Benefactor of the
Salopian Infirmary; by
performing on one night...
- corporate, in
order to
protect and
defend the
rights of the
church (which he
personates) by a
perpetual succession. He is
sometimes called the rector, or governor...
- of the
Criminal Code, (1)
Everyone commits an
offense who
fraudulently personates another person,
living or dead, (a) with
intent to gain
advantage for...
- of
bodily harm to the
complainant or to another; (ii) is
obtained by
personating someone else; (iii) is
obtained by
false or
fraudulent representations...
- King's
Bench in
Westminster hall a
young woman in man's apparel, or that
personated a man, who was
found guilty of
marrying a
young maid,
whose portion he...
