- 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...
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knowledge of
married woman by
falsely personating husband" (additions underlined): "Any
person who
falsely personates the
husband of any
married woman, and...
- 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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probably gave it a more
artistic form,
adding a
chorus of 50 people,
personating satyrs... who
danced around an
altar of Dionysus. He was
doubtless the...
- ****ociated, by Shakespeare, to the
Kairos figure,
related to rhetorics,
personating the
opportune moment to
present the
convincing argument in a speech....
-
Springs Glorie, a 1638
court masque by
Thomas Nabbes, state, "Christmas is
personated by an old
reverend Gentleman in a furr'd gown and
cappe &c." Shrovetide...
- testaments,
bills of exchange, stocks, stamps, banknotes, etc.
Falsely personating another with
intent to
defraud Destroying ships to the
prejudice of insurance...
- 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...
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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...
