- Look up
personate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Personation (rather than impersonation) is a
primarily legal term,
meaning "to ****ume the identity...
- Emilia's
Servant Country Wenches and
Women personating Hymen, Boy A
Laborer Countrymen,
Messengers A Man
personating Hymen, Boy Executioners, Guards, Soldiers...
- in OED
until mC18: 'Whatever
characters any... have for the
jestsake personated... are now
thrown off' (1749, Fielding, Tom Jones).
Pavis (1998, 47)....
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approach in his own work,
Cases of
Conscience Concerning Evil
Spirits Personating Men. He
argued that the
Devil could indeed appear in the
shape of an...
- has been
extorted by
threats or fear of
bodily harm, or
obtained by
personating the woman’s husband, or by
false and
fraudulent representations as to...
-
living in
Arendonk is "Telowerelè'er"
meaning dish-licker. A
statue personating the
nickname is
located in
proximity of the
Toremansmolen windmill, another...
-
knowledge of
married woman by
falsely personating husband" (additions underlined): "Any
person who
falsely personates the
husband of any
married woman, and...
-
particularly the New
World group (Saerorhinum). The
genus is
characterized by
personate flowers with an
inferior gibbous corolla.[clarification needed] Antirrhinum...
- will answer, "My uncle." Ask him again, "If your
younger brother be
personating a dead ancestor, to
which do you show the
greater respect,—to him or...
- 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...
