- in OED
until mC18: 'Whatever
characters any... have for the
jestsake personated... are now
thrown off' (1749, Fielding, Tom Jones).
Pavis (1998, 47)....
- Look up
personate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Personation (rather than impersonation) is a
primarily legal term,
meaning "to ****ume the identity...
- 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...
- Cromwell's providence, and lady
rampant of his
successful greatness,
which she
personated afterwards as
imperiously as himself". The
writer Lilburne implied that...
- any property; (c) with
intent to
cause disadvantage to the
person being personated or
another person; or (d) with
intent to
avoid arrest or
prosecution or...
-
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...
- 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...
- as to the
nature of the act, or, in the case of a
married woman, by
personating her husband, is
guilty of a crime,
which is
called rape." The
first Australian...
- of
bodily harm to the
complainant or to another; (ii) is
obtained by
personating someone else; (iii) is
obtained by
false or
fraudulent representations...
- "McNeill,
still personating the Ohio captain, said, "I wish that
General Grant would remove granny Kelley from ****berland, and put
Crook in command,"...
