- Look up
personate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Personation (rather than impersonation) is a
primarily legal term,
meaning "to ****ume the identity...
- 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...
-
knowledge of
married woman by
falsely personating husband" (additions underlined): "Any
person who
falsely personates the
husband of any
married woman, and...
- 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)....
-
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...
- ****ociated, by Shakespeare, to the
Kairos figure,
related to rhetorics,
personating the
opportune moment to
present the
convincing argument in a speech....
- testaments,
bills of exchange, stocks, stamps, banknotes, etc.
Falsely personating another with
intent to
defraud Destroying ships to the
prejudice of insurance...
- 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...
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particularly the New
World group (Saerorhinum). The
genus is
characterized by
personate flowers with an
inferior gibbous corolla.[clarification needed] Antirrhinum...
